US Colleges Get $60 Billion from Overseas...

Yes, it is well known that schools get funding from overseas. Isn't that a good thing? Don't we want schools that are good enough that foreign people want to send their kids to them and want to contribute to them remaining so high quality?

 

I bet some of the monies is from those EVIL Canadians!

 

Damn, schools should be named for politicians

 

The "report" provides zero evidence for its "fast facts." This is a bad joke written to dupe suckers and promote anti-intellectualism.

 

Their evidence of "nefarious purposes" is assuming that they are for nefarious purposes (that is why they say "may" not something more definitive, as they have no actual evidence of their claims) and blurring the line between private donations and country-level donations. If I give money, it is not the US government giving money. If a person from another country gives money, it is not from their government.

Here is a pretty good example of the nonsense of that analysis: the top recipient of foreign funds is Harvard, at $3.2 billion over whatever period that they are using (they, of course, don't disclose that). $350 Million of that was a naming gift for the School of Public Health. It seems highly likely that they consider that a donation from "China" despite the fact that the name on the school was an Anti-Communist who fled to Hong Kong, and the donation came from his sons, one of whom is actually an American citizen while the other still resides primarily in Hong Kong but actually supported the Anti-Chinese protests in Hong Kong in 2019.

There is no evidence that either of them have dictated any policy issues related to China (the money was spent to fight pandemics, primarily in West Africa, obesity, pollution and cancer, and failing health systems). Since then, the same family has made completely unrestricted donations to UMass and MIT.

 

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What about golf.

 

I have no idea if he is a "good guy." But his money is doing good.

Why do I need a government document of who funds a private entity to monitor these things? Again, these aren't secret. Look at their methods. Public sources. I named one off the top of my head. I could have named a bunch of other ones as well.

That is entirely not true. Plenty of private money in China.

Hooray for big government regulation!

 

Now do the catholic church

 

China is our enemy, and we should not be educating their youth.

 

This is the model Qatar used to influence university “studies” on the Middle East.

 

Stop giving us your money!

 

You think its a bad thing to send Chinese kids to places where they will be submerged in pro-American capitalist ideology (at their expense) for their formative years?

 

And Israel of course, but its probably paid off more for them ...

 

Why shouldn't we be educating Chinese elites, exactly?

 

So sorry to have triggered you. I know how much you worship the Qatarian principles of anti-Israel at all costs.