Imagine if, during the height of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, a situation where our premier American university educated the Russian elite of the Communist Party. These undercover spies — pretending to be students — would have learned a great deal about America and Americans, so that when they returned to their mother country, they would be ready to implement the Soviet goal of burying the United States. If that had happened, would Ronald Reagan have been able to defeat the USSR and tear down the Berlin Wall? Such a scandalous scenario in the 1950s and 1960s is hard to imagine because Americans then understood the existential threat of communism.

Fast forward to 2025, and we learn that 27% of Harvard's student body consists of international students in the recent academic year. More than 1,200 of those students are from the People's Republic of China. These students are not poor strivers seeking a better life; these students are the children of the Chinese Communist elite. One of the Harvard Chinese graduates was the daughter of the dictator of China, Xi Jinping. The Harvard administration knew that they were educating his daughter, as they protected her identity under a false name. Does Harvard actively solicit the children of tyrants to attend their school?