Biden's CIA Pick Is Paid For By China

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Biden's CIA pick found to have close ties to China



Led think tank that took $2 million cash from operative tied to CCP

William J. Burns, who is President Joe Biden's nominee for director of the CIA, is president of a think tank that has received up to $2 million from a Chinese businessman as well as from a think tank with close ties to the Chinese Communist Party. 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. 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. He has been president of Carnegie since March 2015. During Burns' tenure at Carnegie, a businessman named Zhang Yichen joined the think tank's board of trustees.

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"We are very fortunate to have Zhang Yichen on our board," Burns, a former deputy secretary of state, said in a statement in October 2016. "I look forward to working with him to make Carnegie an even finer institution." Zhang, the CEO of CITIC Consulting, a China-based investment firm, donated between $500,000 and $999,999 to Carnegie from July 1, 2017, through June 30, 2018, according to Carnegie's website. Zhang is a member of two organizations linked to the Chinese Communist Party ... 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. Read more ...

Biden's CIA pick found to have close ties to China
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