A government accountability watchdog says in its March 2025 report, released Friday, that most of America’s elite universities have been accepting large dole-outs from foreign entities, including from China.
The report by Americans for Public Trust (APT) says that in 2024 alone, entities based in China poured $176.6 million into the U.S. tertiary education system, although the annual figure is only a fraction of the $60 billion in gifts and contracts coming from “long-standing adversaries” in “past decades.”
The report follows a March 18 letter from the Select House Committee on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), to six of America’s top universities asking for information on Chinese nationals enrolled in their science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) curricula….