House Republicans Press Harvard For Transparency Over Alleged Ties To Chinese Military

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Woke elites running Harvard University into the ground faced fresh controversy on Monday morning as House Republicans launched a formal inquiry into the school’s reported ties with foreign adversaries, citing serious national security and ethical concerns.

The House Select Committee on China, joined by the House Committee on Education and Workforce and Chairwoman of House Republican Leadership Elise Stefanik, sent a letter to Harvard demanding transparency and accountability regarding the university’s partnerships with foreign adversaries and entities involved in human rights abuses.

The investigation focuses on the university’s reported partnerships with Chinese military-linked institutions, sanctioned entities, and researchers tied to the Iranian regime.

House Republicans are demanding internal documents and testimony, adding to a growing list of challenges plaguing the university, including recent controversies over campus antisemitism and donor backlash.

Addressed to Harvard President Alan Garber, the letter sent by Education and Workforce Committee Chairman Tim Walberg (R-MI), Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Chairman John Moolenaar (R-MI), and House Republican Leadership Chairwoman Elise Stefanik (R-NY) outlined Harvard’s troubling partnerships and activities that raise alarm bells about national security and ethical concerns:

Harvard’s repeated training of members of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC)—a U.S.-sanctioned paramilitary group that plays a central role in the Chinese Communist Party’s genocide of Uyghur Muslims
Research partnerships funded by the Department of Defense with Chinese military-linked universities, including Tsinghua, Zhejiang, and Huazhong Universities
Collaborations with Iranian-government-funded researchers, including projects financed by the Iranian National Science Foundation
Organ transplantation research involving PRC-based collaborators, amid mounting evidence of the CCP’s forced organ harvesting practices

Moolenaar stated, „Harvard trained members of a sanctioned Chinese paramilitary group responsible for genocide, and its researchers partnered with Chinese military universities on DoD-funded research and worked with researchers funded by the Iranian regime,” adding, „These are not isolated incidents—they represent a disturbing pattern that puts U.S. national security at risk. The Select Committee’s investigation will deliver answers, expose the truth, and hold Harvard accountable to the American people.”

Chairman Walberg stated, „No American university or college should be assisting the CCP in expanding its influence, oppressing American citizens, or undermining U.S. national security,” adding, „Unfortunately, we have found several instances in which Harvard University aided and even collaborated with the CCP – including helping Chinese researchers on military projects funded by the Iranian government. This is unacceptable and President Garber needs to provide answers to Congress for this colossal failure.”

And Chairwoman Stefanik stated, „Harvard University must be held accountable. I demand full transparency and immediate cooperation with the Select Committee’s investigation. We must ensure that no American institution enables the CCP’s military modernization or the Iranian regime’s technological ambitions — especially under the guise of academic exchange.”

The news of the House Republican investigation into Harvard’s questionable foreign ties follows widespread layoffs reported last week following the U.S. government’s termination notices for federally funded research projects.

So far, the Trump administration has canceled approximately $2.7 billion in grants, with another nearly $1 billion in funding for Harvard’s research partners at risk.

President Garber announced he would soon take a 25% pay cut after losing federal funding. He refused the Trump administration’s simple request to comply with concerns over DEI and antisemitism.

„More than 80 faculty members — from several schools and academic units — have pledged to donate 10 percent of their salaries for up to a year to support the University if it continues to resist the Trump administration,” The Harvard Crimson recently reported.

So brave.

Harvard alumnus Bill Ackman commented last week about the school’s death spiral.

.@Harvard is dying from a series of self-inflicted wounds. https://t.co/gYhQhoxp9k

— Bill Ackman (@BillAckman) May 16, 2025

I have reached out to members of the @Harvard Corporation Board offering to help, but I have received no response.

I did the same shortly after October 7th and my offers to help were rejected. At least back then, I got a response.

Chair Penny Pritzker and the entire Harvard… https://t.co/JUpbhVV6I6

— Bill Ackman (@BillAckman) May 16, 2025

We suspect House Republicans won’t stop with Harvard. These investigations are likely to expand to other Ivy League schools that have aggressively pushed toxic Marxist DEI agendas—initiatives that, in some cases, may have been influenced by foreign adversaries to undermine the nation. Some of these elite schools foster disdain for America, which is deeply troubling. This trend must be confronted and reversed.

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