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US investigations into Harvard University Chinese funding
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In July 2026, the U.S. Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division initiated a compliance review of Harvard University’s scholarship programs funded by Chinese donors. The investigation aims to determine if donor-imposed restrictions on aid constitute unlawful discrimination against U.S. citizens under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act. Harvard reported receiving over $630 million from China-based sources, and Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon stated that schools cannot accept foreign money to provide aid that “deliberately excludes American citizens.” By August 2026, the scrutiny expanded to include academic and national security concerns. A joint report from two U.S. House of Representatives committees, titled ‘Compromised Independence: CCP Influence at Harvard University’, accused the institution of failing to protect American research from prioritizing its relationship with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) influence. over American national security. The 53-page report alleged that Harvard researchers co-authored more than 140 papers with institutions linked to China’s military-industrial complex and complex, specifically naming the ‘Seven Sons of National Defense’. The committees raised concerns regarding dual-use technologies technologies, such as robotics and the potential use of magnetic materials, and suggested that a non-profit entity, ‘Harvard Global’, may have been used to bypass federal disclosure requirements for foreign funding. Furthermore, the report questioned Harvard’s compliance with sanctions, noting a public health program that may have included members of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, an entity sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury. Harvard has rejected these characterizations, calling them the report’s findings ‘misdescriptions’ and ‘distorted facts’, while maintaining that its policies comply with federal guidelines and national security requirements.
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