A national security group has raised concerns about an environmental non-profit’s past partnerships with Chinese Communist Party-linked entities, urging Congress to investigate.
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❓ WHAT HAPPENED: Congress has been called to investigate an environmental group over its links and past collaborations with entities linked to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). 📺 DETAIL: State Armor, a national security organization, has called on Congress to investigate the Environmental Law Institute (ELI), an environmental nonprofit, over its previous collaborations with entities linked to the Chinese government and military in a report published on Tuesday. According to the report by State Armor, the nonprofit has supported China’s strategic interests over three decades. Specifically, ELI allegedly sought to disrupt domestic energy production and industrial growth in the United States. According to its website, ELI has trained over 2,000 American judges on environmental law since 2018. In one example, the group worked in China in the 1990s with Policy Research Center for Environment and Economy (PRCEE), which is affiliated with China’s Ministry of Ecology and Environment. It has also worked with CCP-linked universities sanctioned by the U.S. government due to their ties with Chinese military research. ELI claims its work in China ceased in 2024, although it continues to publish research and host discussions involving Chinese academics. “Across three decades of engagement, ELI’s work has uniformly advanced Chinese strategic and national security interests while undermining American national security by constraining domestic energy producers and industrial expansion and simultaneously pushing America toward dependence upon energy sources dominated by the PRC,” read State Armor’s letter to Congress. 💬 KEY QUOTE: “The question is not whether judges should receive continuing education but rather whether any educational initiative funded, organized, or influenced by organizations with relationships with foreign entities, particularly a foreign adversary, could affect the perception or reality of judicial impartiality.” — State Armor’s letter to Congress. 🎯 IMPACT: The allegations have sparked calls for greater scrutiny of ELI’s judicial education programs and its historical collaborations with Chinese entities, citing concerns around ideological indoctrination. Critics argue that such partnerships may have facilitated knowledge-sharing that disproportionately benefits China’s energy and industrial interests. 📺 FLASHBACK: This is not the only report this year concerning actual or alleged individuals and groups with links to the CCP operating in the United States. At the start of the year, it was reported that the New York City-based activist group DRUM, which has close ties to the Haqooq-e-Khalq Party, a far-left political party in Pakistan, which is widely considered a puppet of the CCP, was training activists in how to physically interfere with federal agents making immigration enforcement arrests. The founder of DRUM, Kazi Fouzia, a radical Bangladeshi Islamist-Maoist, is a top ally of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D). |
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