A Chinese government official gave a speech at Harvard University this past weekend, claiming that the Communist Party of China (CPC) is a “great party” and that human rights issues in China are “lies,” Fox News informed.
On Saturday, Huang Ping, the consul general of China’s New York Consulate since 2018, spoke at Harvard Business School’s 25th annual Harvard College China Forum, where he praised China’s aspirations to “create a great contemporary socialist country.”
Huang said that in the last 100 years the Communist Party of China has led people to reach world-renowned achievements in many segments which were the reason for the development of the country and the improvement of the lives of people living there.
Despite declarations to the contrary from the US State Department and the Holocaust Museum, Huang is an ardent supporter of the CPC and has previously rejected the existence of a genocide perpetrated against the Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang.
Huang also referred to the CPC as a “great party” and praised the Uyghur internment camps as “educational.”
Huang said that he sees these places as campuses where people are taken to be educated and this process has proven to be effective in de-radicalization and countering terrorism.
Huang urged Americans to be more “embracing of diversity” and accept China’s government style during his speech on Saturday.
Huang’s trip to Harvard came after Fox News Digital reported last week that China has secured $120 million in contracts with US universities in 2021.
The story quoted a 2020 Wall Street Journal article on the Department of Education examining Harvard and Yale as part of an ongoing investigation into U.S. universities failing to record at least $6.5 billion in foreign funds from countries such as China and Saudi Arabia.
Huang’s remarks come as millions of people remain incarcerated as a result of China’s strict COVID-19 orders, which have stalled the country’s economic growth and left citizens of Shanghai, the country’s wealthiest city, in often terrible conditions, forcing some individuals into isolation facilities while those who wouldn’t get a positive test were forced to depend on overloaded food delivery services.
Harvard did not respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.
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