Harvard does collaborate with the CCP. The university is being asked to explain in detail.
John Moolenaar, chairman of the House Select Committee on the CCP; Tim Walberg, chairman of the Committee on Education and Workforce; and Elise Stefanik, chairwoman of the House Republican Leadership have written to Alan Garber, president of Harvard University. The congressmen were motivated, their July 30, 2025 letter says, by “new evidence related to Harvard University’s connections to the Chinese Communist Party.”
Many whistleblowers say that Harvard “has maintained close, formal relationships directly with Chinese Communist Party entities,” including the CCP Organization Department, which is “one of the most powerful bodies within the Communist Party,” the one that is “responsible for the regimented training program centered on ‘Xi Jinping Thought’ provided to the Party elites” and that “controls the placement of CCP members in key leadership positions.”
So the signatories would like Garber to provide:
1. All documents related to any engagement, partnership, or other formal or informal collaboration between Harvard (all schools) and any entity(ies) subordinate to or controlled or directed by the People’s Republic of China (PRC) government or the CCP.
2. A list in native Microsoft Excel format of all monies and non-monetary benefits received from any entity(ies) subordinate to or controlled or directed by the PRC government or the CCP, including but not limited to any ministries, commissions, agencies, branches, subdivisions, state-owned enterprises, affiliated research institutions, universities, military or paramilitary bodies, regional or local government entities, subsidiaries, affiliates, instrumentalities, agents, intermediaries, or representatives thereof.
Committees: it’s “entity or entities,” not “entity(ies).” That scrambled-egg look is for the bird(s). But you could also have simply said “any entities,” a phrase that would cover the possibility of a single entity.
Also, Committees, if you’re going to ask for a list of CCP payoffs, don’t also stipulate that it must be in “native Microsoft Excel format.” It’s unlikely that Garber will comply at all—the recipients of these letters soliciting information about how their institutions are abetting a totalitarian dictatorship that is the arch enemy of the United States rarely seem to, this side of a subpoena—but why make it even marginally harder to comply? Get the details in whatever format the institutional steward making the admissions finds convenient. Then some congressional intern can do the conversion to Excel.
Harvard, if you’re going to report these things, as you should (while also instituting a policy to reject any further CCP funds and collaborations), it’s okay to provide the information in Google Sheets or LibreOffice Calc.
