A Sanctioned Chinese Entity Finds a Friend in Harvard. Plus, Trump Moves To Unmask Foreign Nationals Funding US Universities.

A different kind of sanctions relief: Harvard's T.H. Chan School of Public Health partnered with China's national health insurer in 2019 to offer an annual "training course on health financing." Included in the inaugural training were officials from the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC), a state-run "paramilitary group." The United States sanctioned the XPCC in 2020 over its central role in China's Uyghur genocide. "But Harvard continued to train its members, once in 2023 and again in 2024," our Jessica Costescu reports.

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