University of Montana Institute Faces Scrutiny over Beijing Ties

Congressional Republicans led by Representative Mike Gallagher, the chairman of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, are pressing a University of Montana institute affiliated with a former U.S. ambassador to China to cut ties with a Beijing proxy group operating in the United States, National Review has exclusively learned. The GOP lawmakers are urging the school to end an educational exchange program that is counter, in their view, to U.S. national-security interests.

While many Chinese government front groups operate in the U.S. in relative obscurity, the China-U.S. Exchange Foundation (CUSEF) is an officially declared foreign principal whose lobbyists register with the Justice Department as foreign agents. The foundation has been at the center of several prominent controversies involving China’s malign influence in the U.S.

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Congressional Republicans led by Representative Mike Gallagher, the chairman of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, are pressing a University of Montana institute affiliated with a former U.S. ambassador to China to cut ties with a Beijing proxy group operating in the United States, National Review has exclusively learned. The GOP lawmakers are urging the school to end an educational exchange program that is counter, in their view, to U.S. national-security interests.

While many Chinese government front groups operate in the U.S. in relative obscurity, the China-U.S. Exchange Foundation (CUSEF) is an officially declared foreign principal whose lobbyists register with the Justice Department as foreign agents. The foundation has been at the center of several prominent controversies involving China’s malign influence in the U.S.