Bush, a former member of the National Intelligence Council and US national intelligence officer for East Asia, routinely condemned China's attempts on Taiwan question. In turn, Brookings Institute staff like Richard C. Tech companies have also given large sums to this organization.
He wrote in MintPress that in 2019, TECRO donated between $250,000 and $499,999 to the Brookings Institute. In recent years, via TECRO, the island has spent millions of dollars sponsoring many of the biggest and most influential think tanks in America. Macleod told the Global Times that for such a small island, Taiwan has certainly been spending a lot of money in Washington. After forming diplomatic relations with the PRC in 1979, the US, according to the so-called Taiwan Relations Act (TRA), allowed former organizations from the island to be preserved under the name of "Coordination Council for North American Affairs" which was later changed into TECRO. What is TECRO doing this for? Who makes up it and what is its job? According to the three China-US joint communiqués, the US affirmed the People's Republic of China (PRC) is the legitimate government of China and the US agreed to limit Taiwan island's affiliation to informal cultural and commercial relations. But the more time I spent reading their financial statements, the more the TECRO kept appearing as a major funding source," said Macleod. Usually, it is corporate American military companies like Lockheed Martin and Raytheon. "I spend a lot of time looking at their output and researching who funds them. Much of my work entails covering think tanks and how they influence US policy," Macleod told the Global Times. I focus mainly on the United States and Latin America. "I am not, by any means, an expert in Asian politics. This has coincided with an increasing number of reports warning of China's economic rise and demanding the US intervene more in disputes between the Chinese mainland and the island. By studying the financial reports of the island of Taiwan, he found that the island has given out millions of dollars to many of the largest and most influential think tanks in the US in recent years.
In April, Macleod released a report on MintPress titled Tanks and Think Tanks: How Taiwanese Cash is Funding the Push to War with China. The Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office (TECRO) has kept appearing as a major funding source to think tanks in the US, which have made increasingly louder voices to push the US to become more closely involved in the Taiwan question at the risk of having military clashes with China, Alan Macleod, a senior staff writer from US news website MintPress shared with the Global Times on how he found the relationship between the strong upsurge in anti-China rhetoric in Washington and the money pouring in US think tanks from the island of Taiwan.
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