Links Emerge Between Biden's CIA Chief and Chinese Communist Party
CIA director nominee William Burns has ties to China's government
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Joe Biden's nominee for the next director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), a bombshell new report has revealed.
Biden’s pick for CIA chief, William Burns, was the president of the U.S.-based think tank Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP).
However, CEIP reportedly took millions of dollars from entities linked to China's communist regime.
The links to the Chinese government were exposed in a report by The Daily Caller.
“As president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Burns also invited nearly a dozen congressional staffers to attend a junket to China, where they met with a communist party operative and a president of a Chinese front group,” The Daily Caller reported.
“Burns, who was paid $540,580 last year as president of Carnegie, will appear before the Senate Intelligence Committee for a confirmation hearing likely to be held this month.”
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Burns, who has been president of the think tank for nearly six years, welcomed Chinese businessman Zhang Yichen, CEO of CITIC Consulting, to the think tank’s board of trustees, according to The Daily Wire.
Burns reportedly gushed that they were “very fortunate” to have him.
The Daily's Caller's report said that Zhang donated between $500,000 and $999,999 to the think tank over a one-year span between 2017 and 2018 and gave an additional $250,000 and $549,999 to the think tank in the last fiscal year.
“Zhang is a member of two organizations linked to the Chinese Communist Party, according to his biography at CITIC Capital: the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) and the Center for China and Globalization,” the report said.
“CPPCC is an advisory group for the Chinese Communist Party that is affiliated with China’s united front system, which promotes Chinese government initiatives abroad.”
The think tank also received funding from the China-United States Exchange Foundation (CUSEF), a Hong Kong-based think tank that has reportedly come under scrutiny in recent years over its ties to China’s communist government.
“CUSEF donated between $100,000 and $249,999 to Carnegie in 2015 and the same amount between July 1, 2016, through June 30, 2017, according to archived versions of Carnegie’s donor page,” the report said.
“According to the Jamestown Foundation, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank led by retired U.S. intelligence officials, CUSEF is ‘a major player in the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)’s organizational apparatus for conducting united front work in the United States.””
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace has a big footprint in China for a US think tank. Its experts and officials also often appear on CGTN, the state-run news org.
— Chuck Ross (@ChuckRossDC) February 9, 2021
Jake Sullivan criticized Trump in a CGTN interview in 2017, when he was w/ Carnegie https://t.co/RIkqQNy5KP
The news comes as the Biden administration has faced mounting pressure over whether it will confront communist China over a wide range of issues.
Biden has repeatedly downplayed the threat China poses to the United States and even repeatedly refused to call China an “opponent” during an appearance on CNN last year.
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During an interview that aired in-part on Sunday, Biden praised Chinese President Xi Jinping, saying that he was “very bright.”
"He’s very tough,” Biden said.
"He doesn’t have – and I don’t mean it as a criticism, just the reality, he doesn’t have a democratic, small-D, bone in his body.
“But … the question is, I’ve said to him all along, that we need not have a conflict.”
