CONLEY COMMENTARY (WSAU) – Suppose a large American company, Ford or General Electric, hypothetically, made a large donation to China. The money would be used to fund the Chairman Mao Center for Progressive World Economics.
Or a similar donation to the former Soviet Union, intended for the Vladimir Lenin Institute of Workers Rights?
That’s strange. We’d scratch our heads.
So does it strike you as odd that the number one donors to the Penn-Biden Center, ground zero for classified documents, are communist-owned Chinese corporations? It is unseemly that a geopolitical rival is the money behind Joe Biden’s business think tank?
That is almost as unbelievable as Hunter Biden tagging along on his VP dad’s trips to China. Surely you don’t think our secret service would allow the vice president’s son to wander around Beijing on his own. Surely he would have to brief his security detail on where he is going, and who he is meeting with. There is zero chance that our State Department wouldn’t review who Hunter Biden is meeting with and what they might want in return. This isn’t even a good lie. It falls apart after just a moment of scrutiny.
And in the news this week comes another curious story about the relationship between the United States government and our Chinese paymasters. Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was going to give a policy speech about China, calling out their policies of industrial espionage that steals the intellectual property of American companies. The speech was to be part of an international forum sponsored by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Pompeo’s speech was canceled at the last minute. He called MIT’s chancellor to inquire why. The reason: the speech would be offensive to MIT’s chinese students. Well, that is breathtaking that sensitivities of foreign students is enough to silence a former Secretary of State. Pompeo said there were several other universities that also declined to host him, until he was allowed to speak at Georgia Tech.
The reason now is clear. Chinese exchange students pay full tuition. They bring research funding with them. No American university wants the spigot turned off.
We are the richest nation in the world. But we are for sale. And China knows that we’re inexpensive.
Chris Conley
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