Secretary of State Marco Rubio issued a recommendation to the Treasury Department in May, urging them to open an investigation into reports that Harvard University hosted officials from a blacklisted Chinese Communist Party (CCP)-affiliated reputed paramilitary group, the New York Times reported.
Harvard’s T.H. Chan School for Public Health has hosted the health insurance conference “Training Course on Health Financing” since 2019 in alliance with the World Bank and the National Health Insurance Administration. Officials from a Chinese state-run group, the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC), have attended this conference, according to the NYT.
The Treasury Department sanctioned the XPCC in 2020 for its involvement in human rights abuses against China’s Uyghur ethnic minority.
“The XPCC is a paramilitary organization in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) that is subordinate to the CCP,” the Biden-era Treasury Department’s 2020 press release said. “The XPCC enhances internal control over the region by advancing China’s vision of economic development in XUAR that emphasizes subordination to central planning and resource extraction.”
This event is a component of Harvard’s “Harvard China Health Partnership,” which is aimed as a “school-wide initiative dedicated to advancing scholarship on China’s health system, evaluating and designing health policy interventions, and improving health care in China,” according to the school’s website. Attendance has topped 200 people at times.
An archived Harvard webpage found by the NYT features the event’s photos with Chinese script throughout the page. Since the U.S. sanctioned the state-run enterprise, Harvard has scrapped any reference to the XPCC from their website, according to the NYT.
This recommended investigation development comes after a Harvard student commencement speaker was found with tiesto the CCP in May and in the midst of Trump’s foreign student fight with the university.
Harvard University, the Treasury Department’s Office of External Relations and the State Department did not respond to requests for comment from the Daily Caller News Foundation.
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