Report: Taxpayer-Funded University Helped China Make ‘Economic Decisions’

The University of California-Berkeley jointly operated a research center in China that gave economic advice to the Chinese Communist Party. 

According to a report by the Washington Free Beacon, the university began operating the Guizhou Berkeley Big Data Innovation Research Center (GBIC) in Sept. 2016 alongside the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the Chinese province of Guizhou’s local government. The center is located, as the name suggests, in the province of Guizhou, which is relatively poor and underdeveloped.