BOSTON—A Harvard University nanotechnology professor faces trial on Tuesday on U.S. charges that he lied to authorities about his ties to a China-run recruitment program and concealed funding he received from the Chinese government. Jury selection is slated to begin in Boston federal court in the trial of Charles Lieber, an ex-chair of Harvard’s chemistry…
Harvard Professor Charged With Lying About China Ties Facing Trial
Harvard Professor Charged With Lying About China Ties Goes on Trial
BOSTON—A federal jury was selected on Tuesday in the trial of a Harvard University nanotechnology professor accused of lying to U.S. authorities about his ties to a China-run recruitment program and concealing funding he received from the Chinese regime. The Boston jury will return on Wednesday to hear lawyers deliver opening statements in the trial…
Harvard University Moves Chinese Language Program From Beijing to Taiwan
The Harvard University summer Chinese immersion courses that had been taught at the Beijing Language and Culture University (BLCU) will be now held at the Taiwan University as of next Summer. Professor Jennifer L. Liu, director of the Chinese language program at Harvard, said the program decided to move to Taipei due to an apparent…
Harvard Moves Chinese Language Program From Beijing to Taiwan
Harvard University’s summer Chinese immersion courses that had been taught at the Beijing Language and Culture University (BLCU) will be now held at National Taiwan University as of next Summer. Prof. Jennifer L. Liu, director of the Chinese language program at Harvard, said the program decided to move to Taipei due to an apparent lack…
Breakthrough COVID-19 Infections Disrupt ‘Aladdin’ Reopening, In-person Harvard Classes
Breakthrough COVID-19 infections canceled a Broadway performance of “Aladdin” a day after it reopened for the first time in more than a year due to the pandemic. Producers of the Disney-backed performance told the audience at 7 p.m. on Wednesday that its testing protocols detected CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus cases at The New Amsterdam…
Social Justice Policies in Education Lead to Wasting Talents: President of ‘Color Us United’
Affirmative action adopted by Ivy League universities such as Harvard in their admissions programs is an attack on excellence in American culture because it denies admission to other students who scored higher on the entrance exams, said Kenny Xu, author and president of the organization “Color Us United.” Moreover, the culture that disparages minority students…
China’s ‘Billionaires’ Are Fake
Commentary Alibaba’s Jack Ma and Joseph Tsai apparently can’t afford their own private jets. They had to borrow money from Credit Suisse to get them, despite each having cashed out over $5 billion in stock since 2017. Where’s all that cash gone? Is it even real? Do they keep it in banks for which they…
Supreme Court Asks Biden Admin to Weigh in on Harvard Admission Case
The Supreme Court on Monday called on the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to weigh in on whether to take up a discrimination case brought against Harvard University over the Ivy League school’s “race-conscious” admissions policy. In an unsigned order, the Supreme Court requested the acting solicitor general, Elizabeth Prelogar, “to file a brief in…
Author Kenny Xu on Race Equality Targets: ‘Nobody Is Saying We Want 6 Percent Asians in the NBA’
Amid wide-ranging efforts, from the White House to America’s top universities, to progress social equality, American-Chinese author Kenny Xu said he believes the NFL and NBA are prime examples of why artificially inflating racial equality doesn’t work in the best interests of any group. He pointed to the two sports as representing segments of American…
Harvard Business School Cancels Event on ‘Cancel Culture’: Event Speaker
The Harvard Business School Club of New York canceled its upcoming event about “cancel culture” coming after complaints were lodged about the topic, said Dr. James Lindsey, one of the speakers at the event. “I had been invited to speak for the Harvard Business School Club of New York about Cynical Theories, and because someone…
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