Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder. – George Washington

A group led by former Chinese government officials increased its financial support for green energy initiatives at American universities in 2024, according to newly released tax filings obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.

Energy Foundation China (EFC)—whose CEO was a senior Chinese government climate negotiator and whose board chairman served as a director for China’s national legislature—sent $1.2 million to Harvard University, four schools within the University of California system, and Villanova University. That is almost double what the group directed to universities the year prior.

The Chinese nonprofit gave a total of $678,750 to UC schools, the largest of which were given to UC Berkeley and UC Davis, and were earmarked to “reduce emissions and address climate change.” UC Berkeley notably administers the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, which has been the site of a number of groundbreaking scientific discoveries since its founding in the 1930s.

In the last eight years, Harvard University alone has received over $1.1 billion in funding from foreign entities, including more than $100 million from China specifically. At least one Harvard professor has been caught illegally concealing payments from China while conducting sensitive U.S. research.

This on top of the Free Beacon revealing the Peking-based Energy Foundation China—which employs several former high-ranking Chinese Communist Party and government officials—transferred millions of dollars last year to U.S. environmental nonprofits and universities.

China has been involved in espionage against the United States for years.

China doesn’t just spy on the US and steal our intellectual property from our universities, but funds environmentalist and other Left-wing groups to destabilize the American economy in an effort to give them an advantage on a global scale.