Biden Admin’s New ‘Climate Cop’ Studied at CCP-Controlled University With Ties to Chinese Military
A former employee at New York’s financial regulator, who once lived in China and got a bachelor’s degree at a Chinese Communist Party-controlled university, has taken up an important position in the Biden administration.
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency—a Treasury Department bureau overseeing the country’s largest banks and federal savings associations—has named Dr. Yue (Nina) Chen as the agency’s first “climate cop” or chief climate risk officer, according to a Sept. 12 press release.
Her responsibility is to guide the bureau to “focus on the development and implementation of climate risk management frameworks for the federal banking system.”
She will report to Acting Comptroller Michael J. Hsu, who said in the press release that Chen is “an asset” to the bureau given her “background and experience in both finance and climate-related financial risk.”
Chen replaces Jonathan Fink, who assumed the responsibility in an acting capacity in March while also serving as senior advisor to Hsu.
Chen obtained a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from China’s Tsinghua University in 2000, and later did a doctorate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Tsinghua University is funded by the Chinese regime’s Ministry of Education and supervised by the State Administration of Science, Technology, and Industry for National Defense (SASTIND), a defense industry agency for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
According to Canberra-based think tank Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI), Tsinghua University conducts “defense research,” including areas such as air-to-air missiles and artificial intelligence, and the school is home to several defense-focused laboratories.
The Pentagon also highlighted Tsinghua University in its 2020 report, noting how the university has ties to the CCP’s military-civil fusion strategy, which allows the communist regime to leverage commercial technologies for military development.
The CCP controls Tsinghua University through the school’s party committee, which is headed by its
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