The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation paid or approved a future payment of approximately $23 million in grants to Chinese government organizations during the 2022 reporting period, tax filings show.
The nonprofit listed grants to more than 20 different Chinese entities, including Chinese government agencies, labeled as “foreign government” in 2022. tax forms. Most of the grants were for projects related to public health research and analysis, including several projects related to disease and vaccine delivery.
Recipients included the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of the People's Republic of Chinathe Chinese Academy of Sciencesthe National Health Commission of China and the Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China, among others. These government entities received a cumulative $11.3 million from the Gates Foundation.
Several of the entities funded by the Gates Foundation report to the State Council of China, the “executive organ of the supreme body of state power,” according to the Chinese government. The State Council is largely made up of members of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
In addition, the Gates Foundation funded Chinese universities that regularly perform defense work for the Chinese military.
Peking University, Tsinghua University and Shanghai Jiao Tong University received millions from the Gates Foundation, but they commit to in defense research for China and are supervised by the State Science, Technology and Industry Administration of China for National Defense, according to the Australian Strategic Policy Institute. These universities received nearly $6 million from the Gates Foundation.
The Gates Foundation also contributed $100,000 to China's Ministry of Science and Technology for “global health” awareness and analysis, tax filings show.
The Ministry of Science and Technology participates with the “863 Program” of the Chinese government.
The 863 program “provides funding and guidance for efforts to clandestinely acquire US technology and sensitive economic information.” seconds to the US Director of National Intelligence. The Select Committee of the Chamber of the PCC said the program supports the advancement of the Chinese military in a 2023 report.
The Ministry of Science and Technology listed the Chinese government's 863 program as an active program on its website until at least 2018; however, the program was officially incorporated into China's National Key Research and Development Program under the ministry in 2016, seconds in the state media Xinhua.
The Ministry of Science and Technology was also among the entities involved in the Chinese government's “Thousand Talent Plan”. seconds to a 2019 Senate National Security Committee report. The Thousand Talents Plan is a CCP-controlled program aimed at recruiting researchers and scientists with access to “cutting-edge technology,” according to the Senate report.
China reorganized its science ministry in March to address US efforts to restrict China's access to advanced technologies, particularly those with military applications, Voice of America. reported.
The Gates Foundation also funded China's National Health Commission to the tune of $3.2 million.
Some US lawmakers have accused the National Health Commission of being complicit in China's cover-up of COVID-19. The commission in 2021 resisted efforts to investigate whether or not the virus originated in a Chinese laboratory.
Gates, who is the founder of Microsoft and co-founder of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, has historically been friendly with China.
In June 2023, Chinese President Xi Jinping he called Gates an “old friend,” CNN reported. Gates in January 2023 said that “China's rise” is “a big win for the world,” Fox Business reported.
The Gates Foundation also paid millions to groups aligned with the Democratic Party in 2022, tax returns show.
New venture funda nonprofit in the Arabella Advisors dark money network that funds liberal activists and Democrats across the country, received more than $70 million from the Gates Foundation in 2022.
The Gates Foundation did not respond to multiple requests for comment from the Daily Caller News Foundation.
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