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Senators and law enforcement officials have expressed concern about the presence of the Confucius Institute on college campuses. The Trump administration demanded that it register as a foreign mission. It has been the subject of congressional investigations, a defense boycott, warnings from cabinet members, and scrutiny at the highest levels of government.
And yet multiple Confucius Institute branches are fundraising in the United States and the D.C. office, the Confucius Institute U.S. Center, remains a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit with the IRS.
The Confucius Institute’s office on Embassy Row, just off Dupont Circle, less than a dozen blocks from the White House, is part of a global presence that stretches from D.C. to China.
And it’s one that has many government officials worried.
The FBI has expressed concern about the CCP front group. 2021’s National Defense Authorization Act blocked Defense Department funding for campuses where Confucius Institutes were embedded. That concern has not extended to the IRS which has targeted conservative nonprofits, but has shown no interest in an enemy front group’s nonprofit status.
To the IRS, conservative politics disqualify a nonprofit, but not foreign influence or Communism.
It is too busy scrutinizing $600 Venmo transactions by Americans to bother taking a closer look at an operation by our leading geopolitical enemy trying to manipulate American students. An organization whose presence, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and former Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, warned “has never been more concerning,nor more consequential.”
Liu Yunshan, the Chinese Communist regime’s propaganda boss, declared that, “We should do well in establishing and operating overseas cultural centers and Confucius Institutes.”
The Confucius Institute was described as as “an important part of China’s overseas propaganda set-up.”
Assistant Secretary David R. Stillwell of the State Department warned that, “Confucius Institutes who work for the Hanban, who work for the Communist Party, cannot masquerade as benign academic activities institutions.” The State Department in 2020 was tracking “around 500 Confucius classrooms; these are K through 12. Each is affiliated with a university-based Confucius Institute. Right now, we’re tracking 75 Confucius Institutes operating in the U.S.”
Even as the FBI, the State Department and the Defense Department were coping with the Confucius Institute and its branches, the IRS was too busy fighting conservatives.
And as a registered nonprofit, the Confucius Institute was able to take in tax-free donations so that enemy propaganda was being subsidized by American taxpayers.
The Confucius Institute is not alone. The National Iranian American Council (NIAC), often described by Iranian dissidents as the “Iran Lobby” and accused of taking its orders from Tehran, is also a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. The Muslim Brotherhood built a vast network of 501(c)(3) nonprofits that spin off other nonprofits despite the fact that it is a foreign enemy organization.
But the IRS tolerance of the Confucius Institute is particularly glaring because multiple national security and foreign affairs arms of the government have warned about the Chinese organization. And while Democrats have obstructed oversight of the Confucius Institute, there has been some bipartisan criticism and support for more serious measures against the Institute.
Nor is it the only example of Chinese foreign influence.
The Committee of 100, which accused Republican candidates of racism before the 2022 midterms, is a 501(c)(3) that has been linked by some media outlets to organizations controlled by Communist China and its political allies. There are other nonprofits that have been accused of functioning as community groups while spreading Communist propaganda.
But it’s the Confucius Institute that remains the focus for many activists because of its large scope and its presence on college campuses. And because its status remains unique.
During the Trump administration, the State Department’s fact sheet actually noted that, “The Office of Chinese Language Council International (Hanban), an organization affiliated with the PRC Ministry of Education, has historically served as the Beijing-based parent organization of the Confucius Institute U.S. Center and, through it, supports many of the individual CIs. Filings with the Internal Revenue Service indicate that CIUS is directly funded by Hanban.”
How is it that the State Department can use IRS documents to show that the Confucius Institute is backed by the Chinese government, yet the IRS can’t seem to locate its own information?
Universities which profit from Confucius Institute cash have been the loudest defenders of the organization. The Brookings Institute, which is a neighbor of the Confucius Institute in D.C. and has a history of ties to foreign governments and influence operations, defended it. And Brookings remains one of the loudest voices in the Democrat foreign policy establishment.
The IRS leadership knows that an investigation of the Institute would not be welcome.
The Biden administration had dropped Trump’s proposed oversight of the Confucius Institute while the 2021 National Defense Authorization Act provided for a waiver for Department of Defense funding for colleges hosting the Communist group. Last year, Zhongsan Liu was convicted of fraud in a campaign to bring Chinese Communist recruiters working for their government to come to the United States. The case had ties to the Confucius Institute in Boston.
The status of the Confucius Institute demonstrates the extreme dereliction of the duty by the IRS to police foreign influence nonprofits. The Secretary of State and the Attorney General both warned of the Institute during the Trump administration. The FBI Director expressed his concern. The Justice Department has brought a case involving it, Congress has used defense spending to force it off college campuses and the IRS has documented the Confucius Institute’s ties to the Chinese government and yet it still refuses to do anything about its nonprofit status.
It’s busy chasing gig workers delivering pizza.
Internal Radical Service by David Horowitz and John Perazzo, a pamphlet from the David Horowitz Freedom Center, had exposed the abuses of the tax code by radical nonprofits. But not only does the IRS tolerate blatant violations by domestic leftist groups, it’s even willing to turn a blind eye to the activities of foreign leftists up to and including an enemy regime.
Allowing the Confucius Institute to function as a nonprofit allows China to gain access to Americans. After all the disproven claims of “foreign influence” on social media, the Biden administration and its allies have shown little interest in foreign influence in our classrooms.
And the IRS, by refusing to do its job, is enabling China’s funding of enemy propaganda in America. The failure by the Internal Revenue Service to act against other leftist nonprofits has damaged the economy and society, it has also cost lives, but the refusal of the IRS to act against the Confucius Institute treasonously threatens American national security.
Lets rename it the Internal Robbery Service they rob us and Biden wants to arm them with the same weapons(Firearms)he want t o take from the rest of us. Hitler, Stalin, Castro and Mao did just about the same thing
The Left has no original ideas.
That might seem to depend.
Marc Elias seems to have composed completely noveI
[ I mean deadbang new. ] approaches to conclude political elections, and confound the rubes who trust in them, in manners never envisioned by anyone before.
How, ever, did the Democratic Party coax 26 million more Presidential votes in 2020 than there were in 2016?
Well, we better pay more attention to Jay Valentine or we’ll be shenaniganed right out of political existence. We may see elections that have more in common with TV game shows than solemn traditions of expressing political will.
Specifically, our elections will become the equivalent of the 50’s quiz show Twenty-One, with the equivalent of Charles Van Doren winning every ballot count.
It’s January 2023. We have a year’s window. Barely a fighting chance.
Those are techniques.
The Left is very creative at finding techniques for disrupting and taking over the system. But that’s the equivalent of a burglar finding ways to break into a house.
Once there, they have no new ideas.
Of course much of the Right has no ideas for stopping them.
The left does not need original ideas. Centralized systems of government are an easy sell to the masses in spite of the inevitable historical ramifications. When Gowdy investigated Lois Lerner nothing happened. Lerner took the 5th in front of congress and got rewarded with a lifetime penchant for weaponizing the IRS using the 503Cs against conservative non profits. China justifiably views the IRS as opportunity —and the Biden crime family.
Centralized systems of government are easy to dismantle.
Trouble is our side has limited appetite for dismantling them. The people we elect like the power. They’re no more going to give it up than anyone gives up power.
Half the people in USA really have no idea what is going on because criminal corporate media does not inform them. The constant media and political attacks against Trump actually work
That’d explain why they chronically project their own malice onto others – no imagination.
The 1st sham impeachment Trump endured were accusations embodied in what the imbecile *Biden actually did. (The fool actually bragged about it on video.)
The 2nd impeachment was absurdly pointless, as Trump had already vacated the Oval Office, but the infantile bufoons just couldn’t pass up the chance to vent.
I’m grateful for Daniel Greenfield’s knowledge of and writing about the support being given to aid our enemy by the powerful IRS. Other inroads have been made that are equally puzzling concerning the ‘blind eye’ being turned to China in particular, as they gain greater and greater access to America and Americans’ security.
Thank you for the wake up on another great job the Biden admin is doing to destroy America,,,Most of the American people must be ready to chew nails because it seems as though we have all sorts of laws that are suppose to protect the country and i,for one am ready for some bunch in this gov’t we spend billions of tax dollars on to jump up and put a stop to all of this illegal crap,,,,If these damn gov’t dudes don’t want to do what they are paid to do,then let them just get the hell out of the way and let the mob rule take over,,,Things will get real ugly fast,but i can assure you that the CCP will be ready to get out of this country real fast,,,,There are plenty of citizens that won’t worry about all the courtroom bs that seems to bring all forward movement to a standstill,,,,We are tired of this country being played for chump of the world,,,
Confucius say, woman who put husband in doghouse soon find him in cat house (joke 🙂
“To be wealthy and honored in an unjust society is a disgrace.”
“The object of the superior man is truth.”
“To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.”
“Study the past, if you would divine the future.”
“If you try to do too much, you will not achieve anything.”
“You can successfully force people to follow a certain course, but you cannot force them to understand it.”
“The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.”
“Do not let a leader lead you on a bad path.”
“No matter how busy you make think you are you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.”
“When wealth is centralized, the people are dispersed. When wealth is distributed, the people are brought together.”
“I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.”
“Study without reflection is a waste of time; reflection without study is dangerous.”
“Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.”
“When the multitude detests a man, inquiry is necessary; when the multitude likes a man, inquiry is equally necessary.”
“To lead uninstructed people to war is to throw them away.”
“I’d rather die for speaking out, than to live and be silent.”
Thank you for those wonderful sayings.
But they don’t come from the Bible, they come from Confucius, and Confucius did not worship Jehovah. Confucius was a Chinese pagan. Can a pagan atheist be wise and moral? Apparently so if a Judeo-Christian can find Confucius’s sayings wonderful. Oh my! Dennis Prager will have a fit, you cannot be wise and moral without the Bible he claims.
Here’s another wise and moral pagan who never even heard of Yahweh or the Bible,
“Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.”
― Buddha Siddhartha Guatama Shakyamuni
Fake Buddha’ quote.
And Buddhism has in no way prevented some Asians from behaving like barbarians and in a totally irrational way.
How many Chinese were massacred by Japanese Buddhist soldiers? Just for Nanjing in 1947, more than 300,000 dead.
The Sino-Japanese War resulted in the deaths of 20 to 35 million Chinese from 1937 to 1945.
Even if Shintoism precedes the arrival of Buddhism in the 5th century, the Japanese consider themselves to be 71% Buddhist. And see Shinto-Buddhism.
All you have written is very true. But you see sir, I’m not a Buddhist, I’m not promoting Buddhism. I’m promoting REALITY and the discovery of reality and the facts of reality by using REASON and LOGIC to discover reality. That’s what Ayn Rand’s philosophy of Objectivism is all about — discovering the facts of reality by using reason and logic.
Reason is not automatic. Man has free will at any point in his life he can choose to be rational or collapse into the irrational.
Religion is not based on reality or reason but some religions, including Christianity and Buddhism, have some good moral guidance to offer IF you take them out of their IRRATIONAL religious context. As far as I know, it is impossible for any religion to be completely devoid of all actual reality and all reason. But a little bit of reality with a little bit of reason surrounded by an ocean of unreason and unreality is a dangerous thing.
The world would have been better off if the Buddha, Moses, Jesus, and Mohammed had been completely raving mad lunatics instead of only 99% insane.
It’s a fallacy to think of Japanese as Buddhists. Being married to one I can tell vyou the main religion is Shinto — the worship bof ancestors and assorted deities
Thx, aren’t you afraid that following the teachings of the Buddha might bring you closer to God? Or the Supernatural, if you prefer 🙂
No Sir, because I’m dedicated to separating the wheat from the chaff, the grains of reason in the ocean of religious unreason by using reason and logic to do it. Even a religious clock that allegedly tells the supernatural time in a Supernatural Realm can sometimes provide a clue to the actual, natural, and real time on earth.
“PLAYBOY
Has no religion, in your estimation, ever offered anything of constructive value to human life?
RAND
Qua religion, no—in the sense of blind belief, belief unsupported by, or contrary to, the facts of reality and the conclusions of reason. Faith, as such, is extremely detrimental to human life: it is the negation of reason. But you must remember that religion is an early form of philosophy, that the first attempts to explain the universe, to give a coherent frame of reference to man’s life and a code of moral values, were made by religion, before men graduated or developed enough to have philosophy. And, as philosophies, some religions have very valuable moral points. They may have a good influence or proper principles to inculcate, but in a very contradictory context and, on a very—how should I say it?—dangerous or malevolent base: on the ground of faith.
Playboy Interview: Ayn Rand
Playboy, March 1964
China is not my enemy, they are a great partner, you people are nothing but far-right terrorists.
Mr. President,
Hunter has arrived with your 10% cut, along with Xi’s list of demands. (You can pass the list on to your handlers.)
Oh. Your courtier press wanted me to remind you, again, to please refrain from your usual gaffs.
They can only clean up after you so many times.
The IRS is doing its job.
The IRS leeches most certainly are. (Hopefully, they won’t have to plead the 5th like Lois Lerner did.)
The IRS exists simply to milk cows and it does not care what the fate of those cows ultimately is or whether they are American or Chinese cows. The IRS only cares when cows get ideas above their station.
What cows tell themselves about cow nirvana in Cow Land is thus far none of the IRS’s concern. What concerns the IRS is incredulity. That is the salient property of cows.
Hence, “IRS Enables China’s Foreign Influence Operation”
And since cows are herd animals the IRS is completely secure in knowledge that to possess the greatest herd is to possess all cows whatever temporal panics they might have.
Screw you turds, you are are going straight down anyway
Trey Gowdy was investigating Lois Lerner at one time. Nothing happened. Lerner took the 5th in front of congress and got rewarded with a lifetime penchant for weaponizing the IRS using the 503Cs against conservative non profits. China justifiably views the IRS as opportunity —and the Biden crime family.
It’s a fallacy to think of Japanese as Buddhists. Being married to one I can tell vyou the main religion is Shinto — the worship bof ancestors and assorted deities
My own longstanding vie…the Chinese are all the hell over the place inside the U.S., corporations, universities, internet (Tiktok and related), collecting DNA, buying up land (Florida and Texas finally awake to forestall the land purchase onslaught)…
And have been for a very long time. Just like they’re all the hell over the planet with Belt and Road, where their “offers” (e.g. to build something) look good initially but wind up indebting said country when it can’t pay back the “loan”.
Longstanding VIEW ..Add the fact that the billions (trillions ? who can keep up) they receive from all the stuff we buy from them (for example, certain necessary drugs) enables China’s worldwide jihad.