Who is funding US foreign policy

 This blogpost from the US Naval Institute discusses the problem of think tanks:

Not only are a few of them influencing US policies by providing most of the information to congress, but there is a question who is funding them.

They note Adm McMaster resigned because of the Koch brothers funding about a report that said human rights violations should be ignored, but somehow no one resigned over foreign countries who give oodles of money to think tanks to influence their reports, some of which go against US interests.

A small number of think tanks dominate the witness table, and they happen to be institutions that are particularly opaque about their funders. Four think tanks accounted for about one-third of all expert witnesses at the House Foreign Affairs Committee in the past two Congresses, … …three (of the) think tanks most frequently invited to House Foreign Affairs Committee hearings provide incomplete, or no, information about their funding.

It is, of course, an old problem: they also cite this Seattle Times article from 2014. that cited the NYT article complaining about foreign countries (mainly Europe and the Middle East) doing this.

the Wash FreeBeacon reported China's funding back in 2018.

and the Chinese People's daily complained that some American think tanks are making baseless charges of human rights violations about the Uighars and Tibet against China. of course.

as for the Philippines, I suspect a lot of politicians and news media sites are getting rich from both the USA and Chinese sources.

Rappler has an article about ABS-CBN being used to promote Chinese Philippine friendship. But Rappler once accepted funds from a guy who was suspected to be CIA connected, so although they are accurate, they do tend to hate Duterte and China.

as Lolo used to say: They're all crooks.

as for the USA... sounds like Trumpieboy might have stirred up the bees nest when he started outing such things in the FBI/CIA etc. Yes, he lies, but so do they.

Hunter, call your office. Even MSNBC is finding your laptop interesting.=====================

update (July 1)

Austin Bay on Chinese buying influence in the USA.

and goes into details about Hikvision lobbying and the Chinese corruption of WHO that kept the world in the dark so the Wuhan virus could get everyone sick.