Key Points
- A review by The Pennsylvania Daily Star of output from the Penn Biden Center, the foreign-policy think tank established in 2017 to coincide with the start of Joe Biden’s professorship at the University of Pennsylvania, suggests the center has produced little to no original scholarly work.
- Neither President Biden nor any of his colleagues at the new institution appear to have engaged in much, if any, academic research for the university.
- While the center hasn’t generated much scholarship in its six years of operation, it created plenty of unwelcome press for what some observers consider an unduly cozy relationship with corporations based in Communist China. Penn took in $61 million in gifts and contract fees from Chinese firms in the three years Biden sat on the university’s faculty.
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