Adam Kredo of the Washington Free Beacon documents a disturbing new report about a leading American university.
The Chinese Communist Party has transformed Harvard University into “a fertile human capital recruiting ground,” leveraging multimillion-dollar investments in the Ivy League school to enlist professors and students in “projects that involve sensitive and advanced technologies,” a news investigation into the CCP’s influence operations on college campuses shows.
“Harvard scholars contribute to the PRC’s military-industrial complex” through cooperation with Chinese universities, “including on projects that involve sensitive and advanced technologies,” according to a report from Strategy Risks, an analytical firm that focuses on China. “The extent of collaboration suggests that Harvard is a hub for creating ties between PRC security agencies and Harvard scholars and students.”
Harvard accepted more than $18 million in gifts from China in 2023 alone, but did not disclose the identities of these donors. From 2013 to June 2020, Harvard received $93.7 million in donations from China—the highest amount of any university in the United States. The influx of cash has sparked numerous partnerships between Chinese state entities and the Ivy League school.
A sizable portion of this research centers around technology the CCP needs to modernize its military in preparation for a potential conflict with the United States. Joint projects with Harvard, the investigation found, “deal with advanced technologies that PRC laws require PRC collaborators share with the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) and the country’s security agencies.”
The report identified a number of Harvard’s collaborations with sanctioned Chinese entities linked to the Communist country’s missile programs, nuclear industry, and quantum computer construction.
In July 2023, a Harvard associate professor of materials science wrote a paper on “enhancing solid state battery design” alongside authors from China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology Key Laboratory of Critical Materials Technology for New Energy Conversion and Storage at the Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT).
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