A bombshell website linking Florida Republican congressional candidate Belinda Keiser's tenure as vice chancellor of Keiser University to the Chinese Communist Party [CCP] could be setting off fireworks in the District 22 race heading into the July 4th weekend after a snoozefest of a start last month.
The website, called "Keiser Loves China," attacks Mrs. Keiser and Keiser University, a Florida-based, not-for-profit university, for receiving significant U.S. federal aid while holding operations in Shanghai and having partnered up with several CCP-controlled universities and agencies, all of whom hold a legal obligation to serve the CCP under China's Patriotic Education Law.
The law, enacted in 2024, mandates love and loyalty to the CCP across all levels of society, including classrooms, workplaces, and everyday home life. This includes allegiance to the Chinese Communist Party and its President, Xi Jinping, and to its socialist system, in stark contrast to U.S. ideals and policies under President Donald Trump.
This CCP indoctrination goes back to 2016, when China's Ministry of Education first "introduced across-the-board patriotic education at each stage and in every aspect of schooling."
According to the website, Keiser University's partnerships with Chinese universities & colleges include Beijing Jiaotong University, Guizhou University, Guizhou University, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, Qingdao Binhai University, and more. It also includes Chinese-linked agencies and entities that are partners of Keiser, such as Gold Bridge Education, Shandong Sinolink Consulting, Inc., Abundance International Education Institute Co., Ltd., and more.
Keiser is "Helping to Make China Great Again," the website's top line reads. It also says "Belinda Keiser is Making Money with Keiser University's China Partnerships."
"While President Trump and his administration continue to warn of a growing Communist Chinese threat to the U.S. economy and national security, Belinda has built deep partnerships with Chinese state-controlled institutions through Keiser University — an institution that, as a nonprofit, is eligible to receive up to 100% of its revenue from U.S. taxpayer-funded federal student aid," the website reads.
Keiser has also generated $6 billion in economic impact and nearly 45,000 jobs for Florida since its founding in 1977, an ode to capitalism and free market principles bestowed upon by the U.S and its Founding Fathers as it gets ready to celebrate its 250th birthday.
The citations on the website are undeniable, and most of it links right back to the Keiser University website that promotes its partnerships with the Chinese government. A Florida Trend story from 16 years ago outlines Keiser's initial dealings with the CCP when it partnered up with state-owned Peking University, the "Harvard University of China."
According to the China News Service (CNS), which is a state-level news agency of the People's Republic of China, the government has allocated millions of dollars through its China Scholarship Council (CS) to pay private universities to educate its students in China proper.
Is Keiser University receiving Chinese education subsidies?
"Belinda Keiser has made a business decision to partner with the CCP to expand the Keiser University education empire," the website adds.
American lawmakers like Senator Rick Scott and Reps. Mario Diaz-Balart and Carlos Gimenez have made a living bashing the Chinese along with its communist proxies in the Western Hemisphere— Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela.
“The CCP, especially under Xi Jinping’s tyranny, has a particular brand of evil. They seek to control the world, and in their mind, that means destroying anyone who stands in their way – whether it’s their own people or not. We cannot be afraid to stand up to our enemies and hold the line for the next generation of Americans," stated Senator Rick Scott, one of the loudest voices of opposition to the Chinese government.
The district, covering all of Hendry County and a large part of Collier, Palm Beach, and Broward counties in southern Florida, includes Republican candidates Casey Askar, David Burck, Michael Thompson, Terri Hasdorff, Michael Carbonara, and Richard Evans.
Keiser, who has received the congressional endorsements from Reps. Jimmy Patronis, Neal Dunn, Aaron Bean, Vern Buchanan, and Randy Fine, is considered to be one of the favorites in the primary race, along with Carbonara and Askar.
The political fireworks in this congressional race have just started.
