Report: Conglomerate
with Close Ties to Chinese Gov’t Donated Millions to Clinton Foundation
A Chinese conglomerate owned by a delegate to the Chinese
parliament reportedly pledged millions to the Clinton Foundation, raising
questions about whether the Chinese are once again trying to influence U.S. politics
with donations to entities associated with the Clintons.
According a CBS report, Rilin
Enterprises, which is owned by billionaire and parliament delegate Wang
Wenliang, pledged $2 million to the foundation in 2013.
Rilin Enterprises was “one of the contractors that built the
Chinese embassy in Washington,” and as author Jim Mann, an expert on the U.S.-China
relationship, noted, the embassy contract shows how close Rilin Enterprises is
to the Chinese government.
Mann told CBS that with “embassy construction, one of the
most important tasks is making sure there are no bugs there… So you want to
have the closest connection with the person or approval with the company.”
“If the point is you are not going to take money from
foreign governments, then his construction company is as close to not just the
Chinese government and as close to the Ministry of State Security as they could
possibly be,” Mann added. “Indirectly the Clinton Foundation has political
influence, that’s why people give to it. People give to the Clinton Foundation
particularly because it is the Clintons and because they are prominent
politicians in the United States.”
As CBS noted, “campaign finance laws prohibit foreign
interests from investing in U.S. elections to prevent foreigners from buying
political influence at home, but those rules don’t apply to the Clinton
Foundation.”
Bill Allison, a “senior policy analyst at the Sunlight Foundation,”
said, “If there is foreign money coming into the Clinton Foundation, it will
raise the question of –is the president going to be doing favors for a foreign
business, a foreign government, a foreign individual? And you just cannot have
that in the American system of government, where the president is supposed to
represent the American people.”
A Rilin spokesperson told CBS in a statement, “Mr. Wang has
a long history of generous philanthropic giving to institutions of higher
education and organizations that work on and promote global relations. The
Clinton Foundation is one of the many organizations Mr. Wang has donated to.”
During Clinton’s presidency, the Chinese government was
accused of trying to influence American politics with donations after it was tied to numerous fund-raising
scandals involving the Democratic National Committee and Vice
President Al
Gore.
According to a CBS analysis, the Clinton Foundation “has
raised at least $42 million from foreign governments” and “at least $170
million from foreign entities and individuals.” The foundation has come under
fire for its hypocrisy after the New York Times reported that it
took millions from repressive Middle Eastern regimes with downright awful
records on women’s rights.
Last week, Hillary Clinton defended her family foundation’s
acceptance of shady foreign donations by saying, “I think that to people who
want to support the foundation, know full well what it is we stand for and what
we’re working on.”
Her husband did as well during a recent Clinton Foundation
event in Miami.
Do we agree with everything they do? No. But they’re helping
us fight ISIS,” Bill
Clinton reportedly said.
“You’ve got to decide when you do this work whether it will do more good than
harm if someone helps you from another country.”
China
China
Overseas Real Estate Development was a funder for the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation.
Note: Susie Tompkins
Buell was a funder for the Bill,
Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation, a contributor for Ready for Hillary, and is a national
finance council member at Ready for
Hillary.
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation, and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
(think tank).
George
Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, a co-chair, national finance council at Ready for Hillary, was the chairman for
the Foundation to Promote Open Society, and a contributor for the Priorities USA Action.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Sunlight Foundation, the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think tank), and the Climate Reality Project.
Bill
Allison is the editorial director for the Sunlight Foundation.
Charles
Lewis is an advisory board member for the Sunlight Foundation, and was the producer for the CBS News.
William
M. Daley is a contributor for the CBS
News, a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, was the chief of staff for the Barack Obama administration, and a funder for the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton
Foundation.
Barack
Obama is the president for the Barack
Obama administration, and was the candidate for the 2012 Barack Obama presidential campaign.
Priorities
USA Action was a super PAC supporting the 2012 Barack Obama presidential campaign, and is supporting the 2016 Hillary Rodham Clinton presidential
campaign.
Hillary Rodham
Clinton is a potential candidate for the 2016 Hillary Rodham Clinton presidential campaign, and a director
at the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea
Clinton Foundation.
China
Overseas Real Estate Development was a funder for the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation.
Friends
of Saudi Arabia was a funder for the Bill,
Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation.
Saudi
Arabia was a funder for the Bill,
Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation.
Chas. W. Freeman
Jr. was the U.S. ambassador for Saudi
Arabia, the president of the Middle
East Policy Council, the National Intelligence Council chairman nominee for
the Barack Obama administration, a co-chairman
for the United States-China Policy
Foundation, and is a trustee at the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think tank).
Abdallah
Bin Abd Al-Aziz Al Saud was a benefactor for the Middle East Policy Council, the Saudi Arabia king, and Alwaleed
bin Talal’s uncle.
Alwaleed bin
Talal is Abdallah Bin Abd Al-Aziz Al
Saud’s nephew, the Saudi Arabia
prince, and a benefactor for the Prince
Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding.
Prince
Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding was a center
at Georgetown University.
Chi
Wang is a professor at Georgetown
University, and the president & co-chairman for the United States-China Policy Foundation.
Georgetown
Institute for Women, Peace and Security is an institute at Georgetown University.
Hillary Rodham
Clinton is a founding chair for the Georgetown
Institute for Women, Peace and Security, and a director at the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton
Foundation.
Madeleine K.
Albright is a professor at Georgetown
University, an advisory board member for the Annenberg-Dreier Commission at Sunnylands, and was a director at
the National Committee on United
States-China Relations.
Jon M. Huntsman
Jr. is the advisory board co-chair for the Annenberg-Dreier Commission at Sunnylands, a director at the National Committee on United States-China
Relations, a trustee at the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think tank), and was the China U.S. ambassador for the Barack Obama administration.
Jessica Tuchman Mathews was the president of
the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank), a director
at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg
conference participant (think tank).
Ed Griffin’s interview with
Norman Dodd in 1982
(The investigation into the
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace uncovered the plans for population
control by involving the United
States in war)
J.
Stapleton Roy is a trustee at the Carnegie Endowment for International
Peace (think tank), a director at the National
Committee on United States-China Relations, an executive board member for
the United States-China Policy
Foundation, was the U.S. ambassador for China, and the vice chairman for Kissinger Associates, Inc.
Henry A. Kissinger
was a director at the National Committee
on United States-China Relations, is the founder of Kissinger Associates, Inc., a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg
(think tank), an advisory board member for the Annenberg-Dreier Commission at Sunnylands, and a 2008 Bilderberg
conference participant (think tank).
Madeleine K.
Albright was a director at the National
Committee on United States-China Relations, is an advisory board member for
the Annenberg-Dreier Commission at
Sunnylands, and a professor at Georgetown
University.
Georgetown
Institute for Women, Peace and Security is an institute at Georgetown University.
Hillary Rodham
Clinton is a founding chair for the Georgetown
Institute for Women, Peace and Security, and a director at the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton
Foundation.
William J. Clinton
is the founder of the Bill, Hillary
& Chelsea Clinton Foundation, was the president of the William J. Clinton administration, and
the subject for the William J. Clinton
impeachment.
Albert
A. Gore Jr. was the vice president for the William J. Clinton administration, and the chairman for the Climate Reality Project.
Cheryl
D. Mills was the defense counsel for William
J. Clinton, the defense counsel for the William J. Clinton impeachment, the general counsel for the 2008 Hillary Rodham Clinton presidential
campaign, and is a director at the Bill,
Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation.
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