National Pulse reported on April 30 that Biden’s CIA Director Bill Burn testified during the nomination confirmation process that he has had the Carnegie Endowment, which he used to lead, cut ties with the Chinese Communist Party’s influence apparatus, but a Carnegie Endowment report released on April 8, 2021, suggests that the think tank’s exchange with the China-U.S. Foundation (CUSEF) ties that continue to this day.
Burns became president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CIP) in March 2015 and claimed at his Senate nomination confirmation hearing to have simply inherited the think tank’s longstanding relationship with the China-U.S. Exchange Foundation (CUSEF), insisting that “shortly” after he began his tenure, he severed Carnegie’s relationship with CUSEF “shortly” after he began his tenure. The U.S. government considers CUSEF to be part of the Communist Party’s United Front Work Department.
A Carnegie press release reads, “The C3 Stability Report on U.S.-China Cybernuclear, which resulted from a three-year dialogue between Carnegie and the Shanghai Institute for International Studies (SIIS), focused on addressing cyber threats to nuclear command, control and communications systems, with U.S. and Chinese technical and military experts provided input and review.”
According to the report, the Shanghai-based Chinese Communist Party think tank works with the Carnegie Foundation with funding from the China-U.S. Exchange Foundation. Carnegie’s 2018 financial report also lists the China-U.S. Exchange Foundation, and indeed the CCP, as a donor.
The CIA director maintains ties to the Chinese Communist Party’s influence program, and such a person should have been disqualified during the nomination confirmation process, but Republicans on Capitol Hill, at the time, showed little to no concern about such issues.
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