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Biden Secretary of State Pick Under Fire for Chinese Biden Center Funds

Posted on November 26, 2020November 26, 2020 by NLPC Staff

From FoxNews.com by Fred Lucas:

Antony Blinken has had a long history with Joe Biden before the president-elect tapped him to be his secretary of state nominee—as a Biden Senate aide, an advisor to the then-vice president and deputy secretary of state during the Obama administration.

But it could be a non-federal role — one also closely tied to Biden — that will raise a question in his Senate confirmation hearings regarding how America’s next chief diplomat will handle China.

Blinken served as the managing director of the University of Pennsylvania’s Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement, also known as the Penn Biden Center, established in 2017. He left that position in 2019 to join the Biden campaign.

In May, the National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC), a government watchdog group, filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Education seeking to force the university and the Penn Biden … Read More ➡

China Funding for Biden Center is ‘National Security Risk’

Posted on November 25, 2020November 30, 2020 by Peter Flaherty

11/25/20- Paul Kamenar, Counsel to the National Legal and Policy Center, is interviewed on One America News Network about the group’s call for Tony Blinken to disclose the source of $22 million in anonymous donations from China to the University of Pennsylvania, home of the Biden Center for Global Engagement and Diplomacy. Biden has announced that he will nominate Blinken to be Secretary of State. Blinken served as managing director of the Biden Center.… Read More ➡

Tony Blinken’s China Ties; Ilhan Omar Cut Ties to Husband’s Firm

Posted on November 24, 2020November 24, 2020 by Peter Flaherty

11/24/20- On America’s Voice, Tom Anderson of the National Legal and Policy Center criticizes Joseph Biden’s selection of Anthony Blinken for Secretary of State. He also analyzes Rep. Ilhan Omar’s announcement that she will be cutting ties to her husband’s firm.… Read More ➡

Blinken Must Disclose Anonymous Chinese Donations to Biden Center

Posted on November 23, 2020November 23, 2020 by NLPC Staff

NLPC today called upon Tony Blinken, Joe Biden’s pick to be Secretary of State, to explain the anonymous Chinese funding of the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement that Joe Biden established in 2018, where Blinken was Managing Director. He and other Biden aides from the Obama Administration operated as the government-in-waiting, funded by millions of dollars from China.

NLPC filed a major complaint with the Department of Education earlier this year demanding that the University of Pennsylvania and its Penn Biden Center disclose the identity of $22 million in anonymous Chinese donations since 2017, including a single eye-popping donation of $14.5 million given on May 29, 2018, shortly after the opening of the Biden Center in Washington, DC.

Since NLPC’s filing, Penn spokesmen have stonewalled press inquiries into its Chinese funding.

“If Joe Biden and Tony Blinken don’t explain their cozy relationship with Communist China through the … Read More ➡