Watchdog asks feds to investigate university, Biden center for millions in anonymous China donations    

监管机构要求联邦政府调查大学，拜登中心数百万中国匿名捐款

A watchdog group is asking the U.S. Education Department to investigate the University of Pennsylvania and its Biden Center, a diplomacy and global engagement initiative named after the Democratic presidential candidate, for accepting millions of dollars in anonymous funds from Chinese donors.
某监管机构要求美国教育部对宾夕法尼亚大学及其拜登中心进行调查。拜登中心是一个以民主党总统候选人的名字命名的倡议全球参与与外交的组织。

The complaint, filed by the National Legal and Policy Center, says that over the past three years, the university has accepted around $22 million in anonymous funding from Chinese sources. That's out of a total of more than $70 million from Chinese donors during that time, the NLPC said.
美国国家法律与政策中心(National Legal and Policy Center)在诉状中说，过去三年里，哈佛大学从中国获得了约2200万美元的匿名资助。NLPC表示，在此期间，美大学收到来自中国的捐款总计超过7000万美元。

Those significant funds, including the anonymous amounts, rolled in after the Biden Center was announced in early 2017 and launched in February 2018. The center is located in downtown Washington, D.C.
位于华盛顿中心的拜登中心于2017年初宣布成立、并于2018年2月启动后，大量资金包括匿名资金滚滚而来。

Federal records show that the University of Pennsylvania has received significant donations from China since the opening of the center. One 2018 donation alone totals $14.5 million; it is listed as "anonymous" in federal records.
联邦记录显示，自该中心成立以来，宾夕法尼亚大学已经收到了来自中国的大量捐款。仅2018年的一项在联邦记录中被列为“匿名款项”的捐赠就高达1450万美元。

The NLPC alleges the university may have violated federal law in accepting those anonymous monetary donations. The Higher Education Act mandates schools report the national origins of any donations above $250,000 although not necessarily the individual names of donors themselves.
NLPC称，这所大学接受匿名捐款可能违反了联邦法律。《高等教育法》要求学校报告任何超过25万美元的捐款的捐赠者的国籍和姓名，其中姓名可以不上报。

Still, the NLPC is calling on the Education Department to “conduct a full Investigation and Records Request of all monetary gifts and contracts that have been received by the University of Pennsylvania and its Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement from China sources.”
尽管如此，NLPC仍呼吁教育部“对宾夕法尼亚大学(University of Pennsylvania)及其宾夕法尼亚大学拜登外交与全球接触中心(Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement)收到的所有的来自中国的礼金与合同进行全面调查，并记录其附属要求。”

Neither the Biden campaign nor the Biden Center responded to requests for comment on Sunday. The University of Pennsylvania's media office also did not respond to a query.
拜登竞选团队和拜登中心周日都没有回复记者的置评请求。宾夕法尼亚大学媒体办公室也没有回应记者的提问。

'It's not too hard to connect the dots'
"把这些点联系起来并不难"

It is not immediately evident from Penn's financial disclosures how much, if any, of those Chinese donations are going to the Biden Center. Yet Paul Kamenar, a lawyer for the NLPC, told Just the News on Sunday that "it's not too hard to connect the dots."
从宾夕法尼亚大学披露的财务状况来看，目前还不清楚这些中国捐款中有多少(如果有的话)将流通给拜登中心。然而，NLPC的律师保罗·卡米纳尔(Paul Kamenar)在周日接受Just the News采访时表示，“把这些点联系起来并不太难。”

"This is foreign money coming into the university. It’s not going to their English department," he said via phone. He noted that the university has a center called "Penn Global" with several sub-departments, one of which is the Penn Biden Center.
“这是流入大学的外国资金。不会流入英语系，”他在电话中说。他指出，该校有一个名为“宾大全球”(Penn Global)的中心，包括几个分院，其中一个是宾大拜登中心(Penn Biden center)。

"It’s just logical that it goes from the university to the university’s international global groups, of which the Biden center is one."
“大学与大学间形成国际组织是合乎逻辑的，拜登中心就是其中一个。”

Kamenar also highlighted the university's 2020 Penn China Research Symposium, held near the end of January. That symposium featured Ambassador Huang Ping, the Consul-General from New York's Chinese consulate general. On one panel of that event, called "China and the Future of Healthcare and Biotechnology," was a representative of the Penn Biden Center.
卡米纳尔还强调了该大学在1月底举办的2020年宾大中国研究研讨会。那次研讨会的主角是中国驻纽约总领馆黄平大使。在那次名为“中国与医疗保健和生物技术的未来”(China and the Future of Healthcare and Biotechnology)的研讨会中，佩恩·拜登中心(Penn Biden Center)的一名代表参加了讨论。

"It’s not a stretch to conclude that the Penn Biden Center has to be getting money from somewhere. They’re not holding bake sales to raise funds," Kamenar said.
“可以毫不夸张地说，宾夕法尼亚大学拜登中心(Penn Biden Center)肯定会从某个地方获得资金，他们可不是什么善男信女，”卡米纳尔说。

"Even if  the source of the all the mega-millions of China donations are disclosed, depending on the terms and conditions of the grants, there’s a question of whether the University and its Biden Center are violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act," he added, calling the matter "a national security issue."
“即使中国数百万捐款的来源被披露，取决于资助的条款和条件也存在一个问题，那就是这所大学及其拜登中心是否违反了《外国代理注册法案》(Foreign Agents Registration Act)，”他补充说，并将此事称为“一个国家安全问题”。

Asked about the university's outward compliance with the Higher Education Act, Kamenar ultimately framed the issue as part of a larger picture.
当被问及大学对《高等教育法》的外部合规情况时，卡梅纳尔最终把这个问题归到更大的背景中。

"Regardless of the true source of the funds in China, the larger question for UoP and Biden Center is how beholden the university is to the millions pouring in from China, especially the $14.5 million that came soon after Biden Center opened?" he said, adding that the group is "asking [the Department of Education] to conduct a full investigation and ... get ALL the underlying gifts and contracts, conditions and all regardless of whether it has to be reported."
“不管这些资金在中国的真正来源如何，宾大和拜登中心面临的更大问题是，该校对从中国流入的数百万元，特别是拜登中心开业后不久投入的1450万美元该如何处理？”他说，并补充说，该监管机构“要求（教育部）进行全面调查，并。。。获得所有隐性礼金和合同、附属条件，以及一切，无论是否必须报告。”

The NLPC in its complaint specifically requested that the Education Department "obtain and inspect all copies of the monetary gifts and contracts, whether or not listed as Anonymous, in order to determine what if any conditions or restrictions were or are placed on those gifts or contracts."
NLPC在其申诉中特别要求教育部“获得并检查所有礼金和合同的副本，无论是否列为匿名，以确定这些礼金或合同是否有任何附加条件。”

The university has received numerous other anonymous international donations over the contested time period, including a $2 million gift from Canada last year and a $1 million donation from Hong Kong.
在这段有争议的时间里，这所大学还收到了许多其他匿名的国际捐赠，包括去年加拿大捐赠的200万美元和香港捐赠的100万美元。

外文链接：https://justthenews.com/accountability/watchdogs/watchdog-group-claims-university-biden-center-have-received-millions