Biden Removed Chinese Military Company From U.S. Blacklist After Its CEO Spoke at UPenn Event

The University of Pennsylvania hosted a summit on China that featured controversial connections to the Chinese Communist Party. It hosted a number of speakers, including TikTok CEOs and Chinese military proxies.

The Penn Wharton China Summit was described As “one of the most widely attended conferences focusing on China in American academia” The conference featured high-ranking members from the Chinese Communist Party as speakers.

The Undiscovered event – which has seen its landing page erased from the internet – follows the discovery of classified documents at the Washington, D.C. office of the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement. It also follows intense scrutiny Over a lack transparency into tens and millions of dollars flowing to the Ivy League University from China

In what appears to be another conflict of interest, companies led by CEOs speaking at the event in 2019 – such as TikTok and XiaoMi – have received favorable treatment from the Biden White House.

Lei Jun, the CEO of XiaoMi, spoke at the event before the Trump administration placed the smartphone giant on a blacklist over its ties to the People’s Liberation Army. He also spoke during the 2016 summit.

This designation was in response to the company’s involvement with Chinese Communist Party initiatives to topple U.S. technological supremacy and its CEO receiving the “Outstanding Builder of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics” Award from the Chinese government in 2019.

In President Biden’s first few months, however, he reversed Trump’s decision To blacklist the company.

Zhang Yiming, CEO of ByteDance, also spoke at the summit. ByteDance, Zhang’s parent company, is responsible for TikTok social media platform. pledged Use to “promote socialist core values.”

Biden has failed to ban the app in the U.S., revoking the Trump administration’s short-lived executive order which accomplished the feat.

Max Baucus, a former Ambassador to China, has also been addressed The event with a prominently featured speaker.

The former Ambassador to China And Senator from Montana has donated to Biden’s Senate and presidential campaigns, endorsed his 2020 bid with “no question in mind,” Even better! invited Biden at his wedding.

Biden, according to reports, is a “good friend” of Baucus’s, even took Air Force Two to the wedding.

The same Speech in which Biden praised the virtues of a “rising China,” He commended Baucus “a great friend and doing a great job.”

As “chief advocate” of Baucus’s ascension to ambassador, Joe Biden laid the groundwork for a nearly four-decades-long friend who bizarrely admitted he was “no real expert on China” To receive the role.

Also in attendance was Cui Tiankai, a Chinese Communist Party diplomat and longest-serving Chinese Ambassador to the United States, and Consul General of the People’s republic of China Huang Ping.

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