… facilitated by academia:
By the end of 2020, “the Penn Biden Center had received tens of millions of dollars in anonymous gifts, including $22 million from China alone”.
The Penn Biden Center, a department of the University of Pennsylvania, is located in Washington, D.C.
The university endowed Joe Biden with the honorary title of “Professor”, although he “had never been involved at the university in any pedagogical capacity”.
“The whole function of Biden’s professorship was to be a vehicle for foreign investment into Penn, enrichment of the former vice president, and to provide the veneer of academic standing to several core foreign and domestic policy aides who would follow him into the White House.”