US funded nuclear war studies for Chicoms

 Daily Caller:

The Department of Defense (DOD) spent nearly $400,000 funding nuclear warfare research that was conducted by former Chinese government employees — one of whom the Daily Caller News Foundation previously identified as a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) member.

Li Bin and Zhao Tong — two nuclear policy experts who previously served as Chinese government employees — were both fellows at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace when conducting the DOD-funded research, according to the think tank’s records. Li is also among at least 20 Carnegie staffers the DCNF previously identified as CCP members. These undisclosed CCP members worked at the think tank while current Central Intelligence Agency Director William Burns served as Carnegie’s president.

The findings raise serious national security concerns, Brandon Weichert, a national security expert, told the DCNF. (RELATED: EXCLUSIVE: Biden’s CIA Director Employed Undisclosed Chinese Communist Party Members While Heading Elite DC Think Tank)

“This is a cartoonish level of penetration,” Weichert said. “[Carnegie is] planting the seeds of doubt about Chinese intentions and capabilities in the minds of men and women who during a crisis would have to make decisions based on the intelligence that they received over the years.” (RELATED: Biden’s New Green Energy Adviser Has Ties To Chinese Communist Party Front Group)

Annual reports reveal Carnegie accepted over $10 million in donations from federal agencies during Burns’ tenure from February 2015 to November 2021, but government records show Carnegie received over a million dollars in federal grants over that same period. In light of Carnegie’s CCP ties, Alabama Republican Rep. Mike Rogers and Texas Republican Rep. Lance Gooden recently urged the Pentagon to stop funding and investigate the think tank.

A month after Burns’ presidency began at Carnegie, his think tank held a March 2015 “Nuclear Policy Conference” funded by a $75,000 DOD grant. Burns delivered the event’s opening remarks, while Li moderated a discussion entitled “Why is China Modernizing its Nuclear Arsenal?”

Before joining Carnegie in 2011, Li served in China’s Foreign Affairs bureau and completed a doctoral thesis on the “clandestine development” and “control of powerful laser weapons for missile defense and anti-satellites,” his Tsinghua University faculty profile states. Li also sits on the board of directors of the U.S.-China People’s Friendship Association, which cooperates with another Chinese group the State Department designated in 2020 as a “foreign mission” seeking to “malignly influence” American leadership.

While moderating the 2015 event, Li downplayed Beijing’s likelihood of deploying nukes against the U.S., even suggesting China doesn’t possess nuclear missiles.

“China has nuclear warheads,” Li said, “but China does not have nuclear missiles.”
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What Li said was clearly untrue.  China has at least 100 ICBMs targeting the US.  The Carnegie connection looks like a huge strategic blunder.