The University of Alabama recently received an email from the Department of Education requesting records of contracts, gifts, and donations signed with more than 20 Chinese institutions, including the Wuhan Institute of Virus Research and huawei.
According to Taiwan‘s “Free Times,” the U.S. Department of Education issued a letter on the 22nd to investigate the University of Alabama because the official website of the Wuhan Institute of Virus Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences listed the University of Alabama on its partner page.
According to the BBC, the University is suspected to have faculty members who have ties to the Wuhan Biological Laboratory and Chinese virus expert Shi Zhengli, so the University of Alabama was asked to provide all electronic contracts with Chinese institutions.
The email from the U.S. Department of Education indicates that the university may have violated Section 117 of the U.S. Higher Education Act of 1965 by failing to report all contracts, donations and gifts received and sold from China.
The Department of Education asked the University of Alabama to report within 30 days any Chinese universities or companies with which it has gifts, collaborations and partnerships dating back as far as Jan. 1, 2015.
However, the University of Alabama issued a statement responding that they have reviewed all records of contracts, donations, and gifts received and sold, and can confirm that there is no collaboration or connection with Wuhan Biological Laboratory that is listed on its official website as unreasonable, and have requested that the list of partners be removed from the webpage, but have not yet received a response. Alabama State University has forwarded this message to the U.S. Department of Education.
The Wuhan Biological Laboratory in China has been suspected of being the origin of a Communist virus disease outbreak. According to Johns Hopkins University’s website, as of 7 a.m. on Beijing 24, at least 1,727,556 people worldwide had died from the outbreak, and at least 78,550,622 cases had been confirmed.
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