Context from a report by Trump’s Department of Education:
- “The largest, wealthiest, and most sophisticated of America’s institutions of higher education have received … foreign funds [totaling] billions of dollars.”
- “For at least two decades, the industry has been on direct notice that at least some of these foreign sources are hostile to the United States and are targeting their investments (i.e., “gifts” and “contracts”) to project soft power, steal sensitive and proprietary research, and spread propaganda.”
- “The Department is very concerned [that] the higher education industry’s solicitation of foreign sources has not been appropriately or effectively balanced or checked by the institutional controls needed to meaningfully measure the risk and manage the threat posed by a given relationship, donor, or foreign venture.”
TLDR: Hostile foreign governments have been buying influence among American universities to push an anti-American agenda.
