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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 Center to disclose the names of anonymous Chinese donors who gave $22 million since 2017, including one $14.5 million gift in May 2018.

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Posted in Government Integrity Project, What's HotTagged Biden Center, China, Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement, Secretary of State, Tony Blinken, University of Pennsylvania

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