It shouldn’t have taken a global pandemic for us to admit it, but the coronavirus has unequivocally proven that the great Western experiment to liberalize China through trade alone has failed. The Chinese Communist Party’s lies, enabling the worldwide spread of the virus and catastrophic destruction of global supply chains, make clear that China is the same thieving, thuggish dictatorship it was half a century ago.
The CCP must pay — preferably in the form of cash and debt cancellation. But let’s not forget those American institutions that legitimized and enabled the regime in the first place. One only needs to turn to the nation’s oldest college to find our first traitor: Harvard University.
Harvard’s penchant for propping up dictators goes back decades. The university issued a master’s degree to Gulnara Karimova back at the turn of the century, long before the Treasury Department had placed her on the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act list but after the U.S. government had repeatedly warned that her father, former Uzbek Soviet dictator Islam Karimov, had only won his presidential “elections” through corruption.
But in more recent years, Harvard hasn’t just admitted the occasional dictatorial dilettante. They have essentially educated the entire next class of the Chinese Communist Party. Even as the university was actively rigging admissions to discriminate against hard-working and patriotic Asian Americans, they bent over backward to prop up the children of the monsters responsible for murdering their own citizens. Most egregious was the admission and subsequent protection of Xi Jinping’s daughter Xi Mingze.
Although Xi’s enrollment was publicly reported, Harvard allowed her to study under a false identity. Mind you, that wasn’t out of any sense of decorum on Harvard’s part — they had been more than happy for other spawn of the CCP to celebrate their identities. Most famous was Bo Guagua, son of the disgraced former Chinese Communist Party official Bo Xilai. While at Harvard, Bo was spotted in a Porsche and a stretch limousine, though he went on the record to deny that he had ever driven a Ferrari. When his friends were asked by the New York Times to comment on whether his behavior contributed to his father’s spectacular downfall, they “rejected the notion that he was a playboy or a poor student.”
“He is quick to pick up a bar tab, they said, and he liberally handed out tickets for the 2008 Beijing Olympics,” reported the New York Times. “’His concern for China and its people is deep-rooted and real,’ said one friend in China who spends time with him during his frequent visits home. ‘He’s a big thinker. When he gets drunk, he talks about important things.'”
Former top CCP officials Jia Qinglin, Zhao Ziyang, and Jiang Zemin all had grandchildren who attended Harvard, and in 2012, the Washington Post reported that of the nine members of the Politburo, a minimum of five had descendants in American academia.
The problem is far bigger than Harvard, but as Harvard takes millions of dollars of taxpayer cash while firing cafeteria workers and leaving its multibillion-dollar endowment untouched, is there any illustration of academia’s Beijing-bootlicking problem more stark?
This even ignores the recent arrest of Charles Lieber, chairman of Harvard University’s Chemistry and Chemical Biology Department, who was arrested for lying the U.S. government about collaborating and taking money from China. And we’re not including the Education Department’s investigation into Harvard receiving hundreds of millions of dollars of unreported foreign gifts, including from China.
Tens of millions of Americans have lost their jobs in a single month, and tens of thousands are dead because the Chinese Communist Party might have accidentally allowed a disease of their own creation to escape a lab, definitely lied about it, allowed its spread, and now actively wages a propaganda war against the free world.
Harvard helped make this possible, and now it’s getting a subsidy. If anything, it should be receiving a bill and a scolding from taxpayers, not the cash intended for its victims.
