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WASHINGTON (NewsNation) — The Trump administration's effort to revoke visas for Chinese assemblage students has intersected with its ineligible battles with Harvard University.
As the State Department moves to bounds Chinese student visas, the Wall Street Journal has released a report detailing the university's alleged ties to the Chinese Communist Party, citing the assemblage arsenic a favored instauration for China's governmental elite.
Chinese Communist elites attended Harvard: WSJ
According to the Journal, a 2014 nonfiction from the Shanghai Observer referred to Harvard arsenic the party's apical “overseas enactment school.”
"If we were to fertile the Chinese Communist Party's 'overseas enactment schools,' the 1 deserving apical spot has to beryllium Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government," the online level tally by the city’s main enactment paper said.
The study cites a grooming programme from the 2000s called “China’s Leaders successful Development.”
Harvard’s website describes the programme arsenic designed to assistance elder section and cardinal Chinese authorities unit amended address China's "national reforms."
The study names respective high-ranking enactment figures who person studied astatine Harvard, including a erstwhile vice president of China who attended a grooming programme astatine the university's nationalist argumentation schoolhouse successful 2002, a retired vice premier who received a master's from Harvard successful nationalist medication successful 1995, and a existent enactment subordinate who took portion successful a short-term Harvard programme successful 1999.
It besides claims that Chinese President Xi Jinping’s girl attended Harvard nether an alias successful the aboriginal 2010s, which was allegedly known to immoderate unit members.
Harvard has not responded to the Wall Street Journal's report.
A wide scope of planetary leaders — including Canada’s caller Prime Minister Mark Carney, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and aggregate Taiwanese presidents — person besides studied astatine Harvard.
Judge extends block on international student ban
In national court, a justice precocious extended a block connected the Trump administration’s effort to revoke Harvard’s quality to enroll planetary students.
The medication has given Harvard 30 days to taxable evidence challenging the projected plan, which would bounds planetary enrollment to 15%.
Harvard has criticized the program arsenic a menace to world state aft schoolhouse leaders pushed backmost against ending diversity, equity and inclusion programs and addressing pro-Palestinian rallies.
In the astir caller schoolhouse year, Harvard hosted more than 6,700 planetary students, including astir 1,200 from China.
