The Biden administration is bankrolling a UVA partnership with Tsinghua University, a Chinese school with strong ties to the country's military. Tsinghua University — which was attended by President Xi Jinping — is heavily influenced by the CCP.
The National Science Foundation, a federal agency with an over $10.91 billion taxpayer-backed budget in 2023, awarded over $130,500 in October 2022 to the University of Virginia for a climate change research project alongside Tsinghua University, according to federal grant records. That same public Beijing-based university is funded by China's Ministry of Education and researches for the country's military.
As part of the U.S. grant, which is being disbursed until September 2026, Tsinghua and the University of Virginia will work to"guide the transition to a low-carbon economy" and"the potential to offset emissions with newer technologies, such as bioenergy with carbon capture," grant records show. In turn, Tsinghua and the China University of Petroleum-Beijing will aim to"develop a U.S.
The UVA award comes more than a month after Sen. Marco Rubio called on American universities to shutter partnerships with schools in China that assist its military. In early March, the Washington Examiner revealed that Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, which is often ranked as the top public high school in the U.S., pocketed hundreds of thousands of dollars from Tsinghua as part of an educational partnership.
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