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12 Mar, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Atlantic Council, one of the top U.S. think tanks, took money from BURISMA despite warnings from an anti-corruption group that the Ukrainian energy company was using it to "clear up its reputation," emails show. dailycaller.com/2021/03/11/atl…
Atlantic Council's go-to defense is that it always maintains "intellectual independence" in its partnerships with donors.

Which *might* be true, but in the case of Burisma, the donor was paying for the legitimacy that Atlantic Council can provide in Washington.
More insight into how Atlantic Council operates.

Emails released from a lawsuit against Fusion GPS show that Atlantic Council official Anders Aslund courted the owners of Russia's Alfa Bank for donations.

dailycaller.com/2020/11/15/atl…
Aslund wrote that he was planning to have dinner with Alfa co-owner Petr Aven and that he would "ask him what he wants" in exchange for financial sponsorship.

Aslund lamented that another Alfa owner had "been stingy" with his money.

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5 Mar
Lancet editor has said the world has "a great deal to thank China for" regarding pandemic, & that Trump committed "crimes against humanity" by defunding WHO.

But Richard Horton has long been cozy with China, receiving a gov't "Friendship" award in 2015. dailycaller.com/2021/03/04/lan…
The award was from China's State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs (SAFEA), which operated the Thousand Talents plan.

Horton received award for his “enthusiastic support for China’s construction” and for his “friendly co-operation.”
SAFEA funded at least three studies published in The Lancet in 2017-2019. Horton attended a SAFEA symposium in 2016, and contributed to a report provided to Chinese government.
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5 Mar
NEW: The Lancet's editor has repeatedly bashed the U.S., praised China during the pandemic.

That's perhaps why China's propaganda outlets have interviewed Richard Horton repeatedly, even paying for a Facebook ad w/ one of his interviews.

A deep dive: dailycaller.com/2021/03/04/lan…
In 2015, Horton was awarded a "Friendship" award by China's State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs, the agency that recruits foreign scientists and runs the Thousand Talents program.

It's been implicated in espionage and intellectual property cases.
The State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs hosted Horton in China in 2016, and used his insights for a government report.

The agency also funded at least 3 studies published by The Lancet.
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26 Feb
EXCLUSIVE: Founder of Chinese front group spoke at CIA nominee's think tank amid Beijing propaganda push dailycaller.com/2021/02/26/wil…
Bill Burns testified at his Senate hearing this week that he cut ties with the China-US Exchange Foundation when he took over at Carnegie Endowment in March 2015.

But Tung chee-hwa, the founder of the exchange, spoke at Carnegie in May 2016. dailycaller.com/2021/02/26/wil…
Tung pushed the Beijing narrative on the South China Sea, which was at the center of international arbitration at the time.

Reuters at others at the time noted that Beijing was waging in "propaganda overdrive" at the time.
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19 Feb
NEW: Head Of Blue-Ribbon Covid Commission Has History Of Praising China, Criticizing U.S.

Economist Jeffrey Sachs is head of Lancet's commission investigating origins of the virus. Peter Daszak, who worked on the WHO's Wuhan team, is also on commission. dailycaller.com/2021/02/18/jef…
Sachs has met with WHO and UN as chairman of the Lancet Covid-19 Commission.

In September, he called the Wuhan lab leak theory "dangerous."

He appears frequently on China's state-run networks to bash U.S, praise Beijing.
In 2018, he called U.S. “today’s greatest threat to the international rule of law” and “global peace.”

Last year: “The U.S. is a force for division, not for cooperation."
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16 Feb
NEW: 'Team Biden' Sought To Cultivate Ties With Imaad Zuberi, Who Is Now Awaiting Sentencing On Tax And Foreign Agent Charges

Emails from Hunter Biden's laptop and court filings in Zuberi's case provide new details of the effort
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After the 2012 election, a longtime adviser to Joe Biden urged Hunter to cultivate relationships with a group of big donors, including Zuberi.

The goal: "To pull them in a little closer to Team Biden."
Zuberi met Joe Biden multiple times in 2014, and claimed in an email to Saudi Arabia's ambassador that Biden expressed frustration about the Saudi position on the Iran nuclear deal.
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9 Feb
NEW: Biden's CIA pick is president of a think tank that received millions in funding from a Chinese Communist Party-linked businessman and front group.

dailycaller.com/2021/02/08/wil…
Bill Burns has been president of Carnegie Endowment since 2015.

Since then, a Chinese businessman who serves on the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, an advisory board for the government, has joined the think tank's board, and donated up to $1.5 million.
The China-U.S. Exchange Foundation gave up to $500,000 through 2017.

CUSEF serves as a front group for the Chinese Communist Party in its outreach overseas.
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