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Do Chinese Donations Explain Biden’s Energy Policies?

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Do Chinese Donations Explain Biden’s Energy Policies?
President Joe Biden waves as he participates in a virtual meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping at the White House on Nov. 15, 2021. Alex Wong/Getty Images
Diana Furchtgott-Roth
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With reports that classified documents were found at the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement at the University of Pennsylvania, questions arise about the potential connection between the university’s receipt of $54 million in Chinese donations and President Joe Biden’s promotion of energy policies that are strengthening China’s economy at the expense of our own.

Diana Furchtgott-Roth
Diana Furchtgott-Roth
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Diana Furchtgott-Roth is an economist who is adjunct professor of economics at George Washington University, where she teaches Transportation Economics. From 2019 to 2021, she was Deputy Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology at the U.S. Department of Transportation. Prior to joining USDOT, Furchtgott was Acting Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy at the U.S. Department of Treasury. She has been a senior fellow and director of Economics21 at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research. She previously served as chief economist of the U.S. Department of Labor; chief of staff of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers; and deputy executive director of the Domestic Policy Council. She is the director of the Center for Energy, Climate and Environment and the Herbert and Joyce Morgan Fellow at The Heritage Foundation. Furchtgott is also president of Furchtgott International and the author or coauthor of six books and hundreds of articles on economic policy, most recently “United States Income, Consumption, Wealth, and Inequality” (2020). She received her BA in economics from Swarthmore College and her M.Phil. in economics from Oxford University.
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