White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan speaks at a White House press conference on Feb. 4, 2021
U.S. media outlet National Pulse recently reported exclusively that President Biden‘s national security adviser Jake Sullivan and senior adviser for China Policy planning Mira Rapp-Hooper serve as fellows at the Paul K. Tsai China Center at Yale University, which draws millions of dollars in Chinese Communist Party funds and includes Chinese authorities and their military affiliates. Cai is a fellow at the Paul K. Tsai China Center at Yale University, which draws millions in Chinese Communist Party funds and includes Communist authorities and their military affiliates as fellows and speakers.
The Paul Cai China Center was re-established in 2016. Cai’s China Center was re-established in 2016 with a $30 million donation from Alibaba co-founder Joseph Yu, son of Paul. Alibaba, founded by Jack Ma, is known to have close financial and personnel ties to the Chinese Communist Party.
Joseph Tsai is also a “patron” of the China-U.S. Exchange Foundation (CUSEF), a CCP-backed foundation that was exposed by National Pulse for sponsoring trips to China for journalists and politicians in exchange for “pro-CCP reporting” and is a member of the CCP’s United Front. “as part of the CCP’s United Front activities.
Paul K. Tsai The Paul Cai China Center has also been asked by the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) to provide financial records related to the cash that the Ivy League university received from foreign governments in exchange for an estimated $375 million in unreported funding.
The Center describes its purpose as “to help advance legal reform in China, improve U.S.-China relations, and increase U.S. understanding of China” and “to work with a wide range of top experts from the Chinese government, universities, and civil society.”
In reality, however, the Center has worked extensively with the Chinese Communist Party and its American facilitators.
Undermining the Identity of Communist Visiting Scholars
Among the Yale Center’s visiting scholars and faculty are advisors to Communist-run universities and the Chinese Communist military (PLA).
For example, visiting scholar Li Qiang is the executive deputy secretary general of the Beijing Military Law Society, director of the Institute of Military Law at China University of Political Science and Law, and a member of the Communist Party’s military’s “Air Force Legal Expert Panel” from 2015 to 2020.
Other visiting scholars have advised CCP officials on drafting “rules on civil protection orders” and served as deputy director of the Office of Senior Counsel at the People’s Bank of China and secretary-general of the Financial Research Center of the State Council Office.
Another visiting scholar, who worked for the Chinese Food and Drug Administration, described himself as “involved in drafting policies and laws related to electronic commerce in food and Medicine” and revealed that he had received research grants from the Chinese government.
U.S. Colleagues Speak Out for CCP in Western Media
Jamie Horsley, a visiting lecturer and senior fellow, tried to excuse the Chinese Communist Party in a Brookings Institute article on the outbreak.
“China failed to address certain aspects of the initial outbreak. However, based on what we now know about the early and asymptomatic spread of COVID-19 and the ineffective response in many countries, it is unclear whether the greater transparency of the previous weeks would have prevented its spread overseas. Supervising this uncertainty and the fact that COVID-19 is the worst global health economic crisis since World War II, the U.S. and China should end the blame game for this pandemic, work together to overcome it, and lay the groundwork for a more effective response to future outbreaks.”
She also attempted China’s social credit and surveillance system, writing in Foreign Policy magazine that “China’s Orwellian social credit score is not real.”
Susan Thornton, a guest lecturer and senior fellow, and four other scholars wrote to the Trump administration insisting that they hold that “China [the Chinese Communist Party] is not the enemy.”
The center also offers spoken word courses and often hosts professors and deans from universities run by the Chinese Communist Party.
Many of the guest speakers are current and former CCP officials, including Li Shishi, a member of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection; Wan Exiang, vice president of China’s Supreme Court; Wang Yongqing, vice minister of the State Council General Office; and Yang Guohua and Ambassador Wu Jianmin, intellectual property advisors to the Chinese Embassy.
In addition to hosting Christina Ho, Country Director of the Clinton Foundation’s China Program. In addition to hosting Christina Ho, Country Director of the Clinton Foundation’s China Program, the Center also hosted prominent members of the pro-Communist lobby, such as former Asia Society President Kevin Rudd, who was a member of the Chinese government. Kevin Rudd, former Asia Society President, Cheng Li, Vice President and moderator of the National Committee on United States-China Relations, and Kissinger, former U.S. Secretary of State.
Biden Administration‘s key figures’ ties to the Chinese Communist Party
Lapu Hupa, who has served as a senior advisor to the Biden administration at the State Department on China policy planning, has also held positions at the United Nations and previously served as a senior fellow at the Paul K. Tsai Center for China. She was previously a senior fellow at the Paul Cai China Center.
She spoke at two conferences in 2019, titled What U.S. Policy Toward China Should Be'' andFrom Engagement to Competitive U.S.-China Relations.”
Sullivan, the White House national security adviser, previously spoke on ”Can the United States Still Lead?” when he was a senior fellow at the Center in 2018. This theme.
Sullivan avoids Chinese Communist Party as top threat
In late January, outgoing U.S. National Security Advisor O’Brien and current National Security Advisor Sullivan both expressed different views around national security strategy, with clear differences between the two on their policies toward the Chinese Communist Party.
O’Brien said in Sullivan’s conversation that the security challenges facing the United States are first and foremost the Chinese Communist Party, followed by Iran, Russia, and transnational criminal groups.
Sullivan, on the other hand, avoided considering the Chinese Communist Party as the primary threat. He stressed that the U.S. should first address internal issues, prioritizing viral and economic crises, followed by strengthening alliances and repairing existing security structures based on values.
In response to the Chinese Communist challenge, Sullivan sees four major steps to take, starting with a reorganization of domestic policy, “to reorganize the foundations of our democracy, which includes the democratic system itself, to racial inequality and economic inequality,” he said. He said.
The next step is to strengthen relations with democratic allies, maintain a competitive technological edge and take practical action on issues such as human rights.
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