According to public records, at least $54 million was donated to the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement in Washington by individuals with ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) between 2014 and 2019. The Penn Biden Center is where several classified documents were located in early November, locked in a closet in President Biden’s former office.
Plans for the Penn Biden Center were announced in 2017, which was the same year that then-Vice President Biden vacated the White House. Most of the anonymous Chinese donations were given to the Center after the University of Pennsylvania made the announcement.
One reported donor was a real estate developer in Shanghai, Xu Xeuquing. Xu has no direct connection to the university and, in 2011, faced corruption allegations in China that never materialized into criminal charges.
Michael Sobolik, who is an expert on the CCP at teh American Foreign Policy Council, told the Washington Free Beacon that Xu’s non-prosecution indicates that he likely has a close relationship with the CCP>