Many posts have analyzed how foreign governments and businesses try to influence American politics and policy.
From the Quincy Institute: Foreign funding of think tanks
Foreign governments and foreign government-owned entities donated over $110 million in the past five years to the think tanks analyzed in this report. These contributions came from 54 different countries. Many think tanks have implemented policies against accepting foreign government funding, including several dark money think tanks, such as AEI and the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Despite this, at least 65 percent (21 of 32) of the think tanks that publish a donor list have accepted foreign government funding since 2019, more than the number of think tanks that accepted Pentagon contractor and U.S. government funding. A majority of the top donor countries are U.S.–allied democracies, with a few notable exceptions, such as the United Arab Emirates, UAE, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia. Since there is no legal requirement to disclose these contributions, think tanks may, in some cases, anonymize contributions from non-democratic countries for fear of sullying their reputations. Thus, these figures should be seen as a floor, not a ceiling, of foreign government funding at top think tanks in the United States. From 2021 to 2024, 89 percent of witnesses affiliated with think tanks that testified before HFAC are from organizations that take contributions from foreign governments.23
