Republican lawmakers from three House investigative committees have asked the University of Pennsylvania to disclose funding sources for its academic institute focused on diplomacy and foreign policy that is named after President Joe Biden, amid concerns of foreign influence. In a Jan. 28 letter to the president of the university, Amy Gutmann, the Congress members asked her to provide records of China’s funding to both the university and the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement (Biden Center) to “help us better understand the depth and breadth of foreign influence and investment in U.S. higher education, as well as the University of Pennsylvania’s and the Biden Center’s ties to China.” Donations from China to the university surged to over $72 million in the three years since it announced the launch of the Biden Center in 2017—compared to $21 million in a similar time frame before the center was set up. …