Ending the Party for Commies at Harvard

The Trump Administration is tightening up visa requirements for Chinese communists who come to the USA for training at Harvard — and none too soon:

For decades, the [Chinese Communist Party] has sent thousands of mid-career and senior bureaucrats to pursue executive training and postgraduate studies on U.S. campuses, with Harvard University a coveted destination described by some in China as the top “party school” outside the country. …

Harvard enjoys a sterling reputation among Chinese officials thanks to its record in training highflying bureaucrats who went on to take senior government roles and, in some cases, join the party’s elite Politburo.

The ChiComs are open about their close relationship with likeminded Harvard:

“If we were to rank the Chinese Communist Party’s ‘overseas party schools,’ the one deserving top spot has to be Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government in the U.S.,” said a 2014 commentary published by Shanghai Observer, an online platform run by the city’s main party newspaper.

The current regime in China is continuous with Mao Zedong’s, which killed over 70 million of its own people in peacetime. Xi Jinping seeks to displace the USA as the world’s dominant superpower so as to expand communist tyranny.

Xi sent his own daughter to Harvard. He isn’t worried that students will be exposed to dangerous Western ideas about freedom and property rights — not at the leftist school that FIRE (Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression) ranked dead last in the country for free speech, scoring 0 out of 100:

What’s more, granting Harvard a score of 0.00 is generous. Its actual score is -10.69, more than six standard deviations below the average and more than two standard deviations below the second-to-last school in the rankings, its Ivy League counterpart, the University of Pennsylvania.

The Wall Street Journal’s Gerry Baker emerges from a fog of TDS to praise Trump for declaring the party over:

Trump is right to have identified the [higher education] system as having corrupted our sense of national cohesion and purpose and right again to target Harvard as the symbolic and substantive summit of that system.

The sins of Harvard don’t stop at training our most dangerous adversary’s politburo:

Through its admissions process it has actively discriminated against many of the most gifted Americans based on their skin color. Through its hiring practices and teaching it has created an oppressively intolerant monocultural intellectual microclimate. Through its massive inflation of administrative bureaucracy it has enforced and policed these rigidities at great cost, paid for by steep tuition hikes as its $53 billion endowment has made it a hedge fund with a university attached. And through its aggressive pursuit of international students it has built a little elite globalist community of highly privileged like-minded students and academics.

Harvard is lucky Trump is only limiting Harvard’s access to the taxpayer teat and the influx of ChiCom tyrants in training rather than calling in an airstrike.

On tips from abcanc, Varla, and David Kight.

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