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General Category => National/Breaking News => Topic started by: libertybele on June 05, 2021, 11:45:44 pm

Title: Bush nonprofit agreed to take $5 million from Chinese Communist Party-connected group: report
Post by: libertybele on June 05, 2021, 11:45:44 pm
Bush nonprofit agreed to take $5 million from Chinese Communist Party-connected group: report

The George H.W. Bush Foundation for U.S.-China Relations agreed to accept $5 million from a group with ties to the Chinese Communist Party and China's international propaganda efforts, according to a report Saturday.

The group, which was founded by Neil Bush, a brother to former President George W. Bush and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, goes by the name Bush China Foundation for short. Its goal, according to its website, is to build "a constructive relationship" between the U.S. and China.

But a written agreement published by Axios reveals that the Bush China Foundation agreed in 2019 to accept $5 million over five years from the China-United States Exchange Foundation, an organization that's been criticized as a key part of China's international propaganda efforts.

"We are proud of our partnership with CUSEF and deeply appreciative of CUSEF’s generous support," Leslie Reagan, a spokesperson for the Bush China Foundation, said, according to Axios. "(T)he Bush China Foundation has staked out a very strong independent posture on virtually all of the major issues in the U.S.-China relationship; in the process, we have frequently leveled sharp criticism of Chinese policies and actions when we believe that has been merited      ................

  https://www.foxnews.com/politics/bush-nonprofit-5-million-china-group-communist-party
Title: Re: Bush nonprofit agreed to take $5 million from Chinese Communist Party-connected group: report
Post by: mountaineer on June 06, 2021, 01:19:12 am
I'm convinced most such foundations are scams. The notion that this one could magically build a sunshine-and-lollipops relationship with a country intent on conquering us is ludicrous.
Title: Re: Bush nonprofit agreed to take $5 million from Chinese Communist Party-connected group: report
Post by: libertybele on June 06, 2021, 01:47:35 am
I'm convinced most such foundations are scams. The notion that this one could magically build a sunshine-and-lollipops relationship with a country intent on conquering us is ludicrous.

Pretty much the way I see it although you forgot magic fairy dust and rainbow colored unicorns.  happy77
Title: Re: Bush nonprofit agreed to take $5 million from Chinese Communist Party-connected group: report
Post by: sneakypete on June 06, 2021, 05:51:42 am
Someone/everyone named Bush is in bed with the Chinese?

Ahm shocked! Shock!ed,ah tells ya!

Damn shame we can't pull their citizenship and mail all of them off to China on a slow boat.
Title: Re: Bush nonprofit agreed to take $5 million from Chinese Communist Party-connected group: report
Post by: IsailedawayfromFR on June 06, 2021, 07:03:42 pm
Someone/everyone named Bush is in bed with the Chinese?

Ahm shocked! Shock!ed,ah tells ya!

Damn shame we can't pull their citizenship and mail all of them off to China on a slow boat.
An maybe when he arrives he can direct tank traffic in Tiananmen Square?
Title: Re: Bush nonprofit agreed to take $5 million from Chinese Communist Party-connected group: report
Post by: skeeter on June 06, 2021, 07:10:40 pm
Someone/everyone named Bush is in bed with the Chinese?

Ahm shocked! Shock!ed,ah tells ya!

Damn shame we can't pull their citizenship and mail all of them off to China on a slow boat.
All the US politicians/bureaucrats involved in China "opening" a few decades go are suspect today. Seems they all used their positions to cash in.

The Bushes were right in among em.
Title: Re: Bush nonprofit agreed to take $5 million from Chinese Communist Party-connected group: report
Post by: libertybele on June 06, 2021, 07:32:16 pm
All the US politicians/bureaucrats involved in China "opening" a few decades go are suspect today. Seems they all used their positions to cash in.

The Bushes were right in among em.

More information on The George H. W. Bush Foundation for U.S. China Relations   (@link below )

There is also the 'George  & Barbara Bush Foundation' and sitting on the Board of Directors is Dorothy Bush Koch - I didn't realize that she had married into the Koch family.

https://www.georgeandbarbarabush.org/about/

https://bushchinafoundation.org/