Exclusive: China’s secret donations to the University of Delaware surged after Biden Institute opened
According to an analysis by the Public Accountability Institute, the second university received more than $6.7 million in anonymous donations from China, including direct funding from the Chinese government, after Joe Biden created a program there on his own behalf. The revelation comes after reports that anonymous China-related funds going to the University of Pennsylvania nearly tripled after the opening of the Penn-Biden Center, which illegally stored classified documents.
On March 13, 2017, less than seven weeks after completing his second term as vice president, Joe Biden announced the founding of the Biden Institute at the University of Delaware (UD) in his home state. According to the announcement, part of “Biden’s vision for the institution is an annual conference at UD, similar to the World Economic Forum or the Aspen Institute.”
At the time of Biden’s UD announcement, several members of the Biden family were working on million-dollar deals with foreign businessmen connected to the highest levels of Chinese intelligence. And another Biden university program at the University of Pennsylvania appeared to contain classified documents from the Obama-Biden administration in an inappropriate manner.
Prior to hosting the Biden Institute, UD had never disclosed funding from China. A year later (and just two months after the Penn-Biden Center opened its D.C. office), anonymous donations from China to UD have skyrocketed. The first payment came in April 2018 in the amount of $3,204,070 from an anonymous donor in China. In December 2018, another anonymous donation from China was received in the amount of $1,869,515. A third anonymous China-related payment of $624,904 was received in December 2019.
In 2020, while Biden was campaigning for the presidency, anonymous Chinese government organizations sent three more payments totaling $1,005,761 to the UD, most of which came after Biden was declared president-elect.
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Three of those donations from China — totaling $1,005,761 — came from a “foreign government source,” according to U.S. Department of Education (DOE) records compiled from information shared with the DOE by the University of Delaware.
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It should be noted that, according to available records, no Chinese donations to the University of Pennsylvania after the creation of the Biden Center of Pennsylvania were reported to the Department of Energy as coming from a “foreign government source” – a fact. leading at least one fact-checker to conclude that the Pennsylvania Biden Center was unfairly labeled “Chinese-funded” because the influx of funding from China into UPenn after its inception did not receive that Department of Energy identifier. However, three donations from China to the University of Delaware in the years following the launch of the Biden Institute clearly have the identifier “Foreign Government Source”.
The actual DOE entry field for this ID asks, “Is this funding from the government?” For these three donations, the University of Delaware answered “Yes” as seen in the three images below taken from the Department of Energy website (emphasis added).
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Neither the Biden Institute nor the UD responded to requests to name Chinese donors or explain why the Chinese government chose to fund UD after the creation of the Biden Institute.
Perhaps the most puzzling aspect of the Biden Institute is how it was conceived.
The original idea for the Biden Institute at UD appears to have been put forward by Joe’s son, Hunter Biden, when the elder Biden was still vice president.
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In March 2016, Hunter Biden met with new UD President Dr. Dennis Assanis when Hunter and his business partners were planning to create a “scene” to promote the “Biden brand”, emails from Hunter’s abandoned laptops. Other emails on the laptop indicate that Hunter and his business partners were concerned about raising Joe’s “future earnings potential” while Joe was still a vice president.
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A month after meeting the new UD president, Hunter discussed plans for both the Biden Institute at UD and the Biden Center at UPenn with a talent agent named Craig Gehring, his laptop emails show. Goering’s “Confidential Notes” reveal Hunter Biden’s plans to work in some capacity at the Pennsylvania Biden Center, where illegal possession of classified documents was recently discovered.
Göring noted that Biden’s academic ventures could operate as “Clinton’s Global Initiative” without raising money. The Clinton Global Initiative, as previously reported by GAI, served as a way to enrich the Clinton family fund by providing access to Hillary Clinton’s State Department. The Clintons had to raise their own funds for their initiative, prompting the question of how Biden’s programs would work “without fundraising.” Chinese government funding may be at least part of the answer.
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Göring’s final thoughts on Biden’s academic ventures indicate that they will primarily be about “wealth creation” for the Biden family. These ventures began when the Biden family personally raised large sums of money — eventually around $31 million — from deals involving top levels of Chinese intelligence, and when Hunter paid his father’s bills — a potential crime when Joe Biden was vice president. U.S.A.
Several members of the Biden family also appear to have been involved in the planning of the Biden Institute.
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The UD has long held a treasure trove of Biden Senate records – more than 1,800 boxes – and blocks public requests to view those records. In June 2022, a judge chided the UD for a lack of transparency. It is not known what documents, classified or otherwise, may have been stored at the Biden Institute at California State University from Vice President Biden.
After funding for the Penn-Biden Center from China nearly tripled, the university sent an open letter to the Justice Department calling for an end to investigations into Chinese espionage at American universities (UPenn ostensibly over concerns about “racial profiling”). Biden’s Justice Department agreed.
But there is reason to believe that Chinese espionage at universities warrants more, not less, investigation, especially at the UD.
In February 2022, Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) sent a letter to UD President Dennis Assanis urging UD to end its academic and research partnership with China’s Xiamen University. Xiamen University actively supports Beijing’s military-industrial complex and allegedly colluded with Huawei to steal trade secrets from an American semiconductor startup. It appears that UD is still working closely with Xiamen University and its staff.
The Justice Department, the FBI and the special prosecutor are under increasing pressure to check Biden’s records at the University of Delaware for more classified material. Last month, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre declined to answer a question about whether President Biden had any objection to checking his UD records.
Whether the White House objects or not, investigators can also look into secret Chinese money that flows to both the Biden Institute at the US University and the Pennsylvania Biden Center.
Seamus Bruner and Jedd McPhatter are directors of research at the Institute for Government Accountability. Bruner is the author of Compromise: How Money and Politics Contribute to Corruption and FBI Consequences: Nuclear Bribes, Russian Spies, and the DC Lies. Follow @seamusbruner.
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