A Senate committee has approved a bill that would further regulate foreign financial gifts to American universities and levy hefty fines against those who fail to comply. A bipartisan majority of the Senate Committee on Education and the Workforce voted on Nov. 7 to approve the Defending Education Transparency and Ending Rogue Regimes Engaging in Nefarious Transactions (DETERRENT) Act. Committee chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) said that the bill was necessary to counter the increasing malign influence of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and other adversarial powers. “What we know is happening in institutions all around the country is that countries like China, Qatar, maybe even Iran … give money to the universities,” Ms. Foxx told NTD, a sister media outlet of The Epoch Times....Read more https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/senate-committee-moves-to-tighten-up-on-foreign-gifts-to-universities-colleges-5525951