How The Biden Admin Helped A Public University Partner With A CCP-Controlled School

 The Biden administration is using taxpayer cash to fund a University of Virginia climate change partnership with a Chinese Communist Party-controlled school that conducts research for China's military.

President Joe Biden's National Science Foundation last year awarded more than $130,000 to the University of Virginia to conduct climate change research with Beijing-based Tsinghua University, federal spending disclosures show.

Tsinghua University, which counts Chinese president Xi Jinping among its alumni, will work with University of Virginia researchers to chart the global "Transition to a low-carbon economy," according to the grant description.

Tsinghua University is funded by China's Ministry of Education and maintains a "CCP Committee" that keeps the school "In accordance with President Xi's hopes." It also holds "Secret-level security credentials" for classified military research, trains students for China's nuclear weapons program, and has allegedly carried out cyberattacks for the Chinese government, according to the Australian Strategic Policy Institute.

It is also one of several Chinese universities under the supervision of the communist nation's State Administration of Science, Technology, and Industry for National Defense, a CCP agency that works to deepen university involvement in the defense sector.

The grant, which started in October and runs through 2026, funds University of Virginia research into "The transition to a low-carbon economy." Tsinghua and a second Chinese partner, the China University of Petroleum-Beijing, will conduct similar research in China, the results of which "Will be used to develop a U.S.-Chinese collaborative course on climate leadership skills." That collaboration, the grant says, "Will lead to better strategies for lowering emissions in the United States that are complementary to those in China." China is by far the biggest polluter in the world-in 2019, it emitted more greenhouse gases than all developed nations combined.

A University of Virginia spokesman defended the university's work with Tsinghua, arguing that because the project "Does not involve critical technologies or military applications," it does not compromise U.S. national security interests.

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