HARVARD’S ASH CENTER, WHICH RECENTLY PUBLISHED A REPORT CLAIMING THE CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY ENJOYS RECORD-HIGH SUPPORT, HAS DEEP TIES TO THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT INCLUDING MILLION-DOLLAR DONORS FROM CHINESE STATE-OWNED ENTERPRISES, LEADERS WITH FINANCIAL TIES TO CHINA, AND COLLABORATION WITH CHINESE UNIVERSITIES TO TRAIN CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY OFFICIALS.
The July 2020 report “Understanding CCP Resilience: Surveying Chinese Public Opinion Through Time” contends that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is “as strong as ever” and “under no imminent threat of popular upheaval.”
“Chinese citizen satisfaction with government has increased virtually across the board,” the Harvard Kennedy School Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation paper continues.
But the 18-page report omits references to events countering this narrative: ongoing Hong Kong protests, oppression of Uyghurs in Xinjiang, or even the party’s mishandling of coronavirus.
Harvard’s report was circulated widely by Chinese embassies, the CCP’s Foreign Ministry, and even state-run media outlets such as China Global Television Network (CGTN), which exploited the study to bolster its narrative the CCP enjoys widespread support.
機翻譯文：
哈佛大學的灰中心最近發表了一份報告，聲稱中國共產黨獲得了創紀錄的支持，它與中國政府有着深厚的聯繫，其中包括來自中國國有企業的數百萬美元捐助者，與中國有金融聯繫的領導人以及與中國人的合作。大學訓練中國共產黨官員。
2020年7月的報告 “了解中共的應變能力：通過時間對中國輿論進行調查”認為，中國共產黨（CCP）“一如既往地強大”，並且“不會受到民眾動盪的直接威脅”。
“中國公民對政府的滿意度實際上已經全面提高，”哈佛肯尼迪學校阿什民主管理與創新中心的論文繼續說道。
但這份長達18頁的報告沒有提及與這種說法背道而馳的事件：香港抗議活動不斷，新疆維吾爾人受到壓迫，甚至該黨對冠狀病毒的處理不當。
哈佛的報告在中國大使館，中共外交部乃至中國全球電視網（CGTN）等國營媒體中廣為流傳，利用該研究來加強其敘述，中共得到了廣泛支持。
跟隨金錢。
灰中心的捐助者包括中國南方電網公司，該公司由中國政府全資擁有和運營，其管理“由中國中央政府直接任命”。另一個捐助者是中共本身，通過台灣外交部。
進一步的捐款來自新世界中國企業計劃，這是一家中國公司，其董事會實際上由所有中共成員組成。例如，其主席兼執行董事成家順曾擔任中共政治協商會議的常務委員會委員。
這些經濟紐帶使中共對灰中心發布的報告內容具有最大的影響力和最大的脅迫力。而常春藤大學已經在司法部部雷達未能從中國披露百萬外事禮品。
由於中共的限制，該研究的前言主張“在中國大陸進行的長期的，公開可用的，具有國家代表性的調查如此罕見”，但關於如何規避此類限制或中國政府的能力（如果有的話）的細節卻很少。被捲入。
取而代之的是，將其埋在一個腳註中： “本簡介中引用的調查是由哈佛大學阿什哈德民主創新中心設計的，並由國內知名的中國民意測驗公司實施。”
從來沒有提到“信譽良好的公司”，也沒有提供任何證據。
CCP合作者。
灰中心的主任是安東尼·薩希（Anthony Saich），他是該研究的首席研究員，他在2012年宣稱中國“實際上並不是對美國的威脅”。
根據他在哈佛的傳記，塞奇似乎是“在中國工作的眾多政府，私人和非營利組織的”顧問”在中國具有商業利益：
塞奇於1976年作為一名學生首次訪問中國，並每年繼續訪問。目前，他是中國清華大學公共政策與管理學院的客座教授。他還為廣泛的政府，私人和非營利組織提供有關在中國和亞洲其他地區工作的建議。
薩希（Saich）擔任美國電影院連鎖店AMC Entertainment 的獨立董事和受託人的職位就是一個例子，該公司臭名昭著地歸功於中國大連萬達集團公司。
塞克（Saich）還是親美遊說團體美中關係全國委員會（NCUSCR）的受託成員，其主席經常出現在國營媒體上，例如攻擊批評中國加入世貿組織的批評家，造成數百萬美國人失業的原因是“根本上的錯誤”。
他還認為，對中國外國直接投資（FDI）的擔憂 是“過度反應”，而中國對外直接投資是中共控制美國公司並從事知識產權盜竊的 主要途徑 。
他甚至獲得了中共的嘉獎。
2014年，他獲得了上海市人民政府頒發的“白玉蘭銀獎”，以表彰其對上海發展的貢獻。2006年至2009年，他獲得了教育部最高的學術獎，清華大學的長江獎學金。
這項研究的另一位貢獻者愛德華·坎寧安（Edward Cunningham）將自己確定為“能源，環境和金融服務領域私人和上市公司的顧問”。
根據他的簡歷，坎寧安從中國南方電網公司，從天府集團，一家總部位於中國，數十億美元的管理公司“控制和資助的中共，以390萬$一起獲得百萬$ 2.3 建立在工業總局國家工商總局的批准”，其中列出了幾家國有企業為“合作夥伴”，而中共組織則為董事會成員。
這種財務聯繫使Ash中心對客觀報告該政府產生了疑問，該政府阻止了該中心的主要研究人員似乎參與的許多業務交易。
中共走了。
從2001年開始，灰中心舉辦了“中國發展領導者計劃”長達10多年。
該計劃將自己描述為“被中國政府廣泛認可為針對政府官員的最佳海外培訓計劃之一。”
總結繼續說：“這個為期數周的培訓計劃在中國清華大學和哈佛大學肯尼迪學校同時授課，旨在幫助中國地方和中央政府高級官員做好準備，以更有效地應對中國國家改革的挑戰。”
除了與試圖破壞美國政府的大學合作之外，該計劃還向殘酷的中共高層領導人提供了哈佛教授的聲名狼藉的建議，這是該黨自己的中央組織部精心挑選的。幾年來，被《華盛頓郵報 》認定為對維吾爾人的“鎮壓工具”的新疆生產建設公司的成員加入了代表團。
此外，該計劃的說明指出“官員訪問了美國的地方，州和聯邦政府組織。” 該計劃將CCP裝置與美國國務院，食品和藥物管理局甚至美國國會的會議聯繫起來。
還包括科恩集團，這是一家由總統比爾·克林頓·威廉·科恩（Bill Clinton William Cohen）任職的前國防部長的諮詢公司，並以詹姆斯· 馬蒂斯（James Mattis）將軍為首席顧問。代表團還參觀了《華盛頓郵報》。
該計劃於2014年終止，現已與劍橋大學合作，但灰中心保留了兩個明確旨在協助中共官員的計劃。
上海市執行管理計劃“旨在為上海市政府機構的高級官員提供戰略，領導力，服務提供管理，城市規劃與發展，危機管理和社會政策方面的見解。”
中國金融業領袖計劃是“針對中國銀行業的高級管理人員”的計劃，該計劃主要是國有的。
在社會正義的堡壘下，哈佛與壓迫性，種族主義和新殖民主義政權的金融和商業聯繫導致虛偽的虛假展示。
FOLLOW THE MONEY.
Among the Ash Center’s donors are China Southern Power Grid Corp, which is wholly owned and operated by the Chinese Government, whose management is “directly appointed by China’s central government.” Another donor is the CCP itself, via Taiwan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Further donations come from New World China Enterprises Project, a Chinese company whose board is composed of virtually all CCP members. Its Chairman and Executive Director Cheng Kar-Shun, for example, served as a Standing Committee Member of the CCP’s Political Consultative Conference.
These financial ties grant the CCP at best influence and at worst coercion over the content of reports issued by the Ash Center. And the Ivy League university is already on the Department of Justice’s radar for failing to disclose millions in foreign gifts from China.
The study’s foreword contends “long-term, publicly-available, and nationally-representative surveys in mainland China are so rare” due to CCP constraints but provides little detail as to how it circumvented such restrictions or what capacity, if any, the Chinese government was involved.
Instead, buried in a single footnote: “The survey referenced in this brief was designed by the Harvard Ash Center for Democratic Innovation and implemented by a reputable domestic Chinese polling firm.”
The “reputable firm” is never named, nor is any evidence provided for this claim.
CCP COLLABORATORS.
The Ash Center’s Director is Anthony Saich, who in 2012 claimed China “is not really a threat to the U.S,” was a lead researcher of the study.
Per his Harvard biography, Saich appears to have business interests in China as an “adviser” to a “wide range of government, private, and nonprofit organizations on work in China”:
Saich first visited China as a student in 1976 and continues to visit each year. Currently, he is a guest professor at the School of Public Policy and Management at Tsinghua University, China. He also advises a wide range of government, private, and nonprofit organizations on work in China and elsewhere in Asia.
One such example is Saich’s position as an independent director and trustee of AMC Entertainment, an American movie theatre chain that was notoriously subsumed by China’s Dalian Wanda Group Corp.
Saich is also a trustee member of the National Committee on US-China Relations (NCUSCR), a pro-China lobby group whose president routinely appears on state-run media to, for example, attack critics of China’s entrance to the World Trade Organization, responsible for the loss of millions of American jobs, as “fundamentally wrong.”
He also believes that fears of Chinese Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), the primary avenue whereby the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) takes control of U.S. companies and engages in intellectual property theft, are an “overreaction.”
He’s even received awards from the CCP.
In 2014, he received the Magnolia Silver Award from Shanghai Municipal People’s Government “in recognition of contribution to Shanghai’s development” and was granted the highest academic award, the Chang Jiang Scholarship at Tsinghua University, from the Ministry of Education from 2006 to 2009.
Another contributor to the study, Edward Cunningham, identifies himself as “an advisor to private and publicly listed companies in the energy, environmental, and financial services sectors.”
According to his resume, Cunningham received $2.3 million from China Southern Power Grid Corp, controlled and funded by the CCP, along with $3.9 million from the Tianfu Group, a China-based, billion-dollar management company “established under the State Administration of Industry and Commerce (SAIC) approval” that lists several state-owned enterprises as “partners” and CCP apparatchiks as board members.
Such financial ties call into question the Ash Center’s to report objectively on the same government that gate-keeps many of the business deals the center’s lead researchers appear to be involved with.
CCP GOES IVY.
The Ash Center hosted the “China’s Leaders in Development Program” for over a decade, beginning in 2001.
The program describes itself as “widely recognized by the Chinese government as one of the best overseas training programs for government officials.”
“Taught both at Tsinghua University, China, and Harvard Kennedy School, this multi weeks training program is specifically designed to help prepare senior local and central Chinese government officials to more effectively address the ongoing challenges of China’s national reforms,” the summary continues.
Beyond collaborating with a university that has attempted to hack the U.S. government, the program brings Harvard professors’ prestigious advice to senior leaders from the brutal CCP, handpicked by the party’s own Organization Department of the Central Committee. Several years, members of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corp, which has been identified as an “instrument of repression” against Uighurs by the Washington Post, have joined the delegation.
2011 CCP/HARVARD CONFERENCEWhat’s more, the program connected CCP apparatchiks with meetings at the U.S. State Department, Food and Drug Administration, and even the U.S. Congress, as the program’s description notes “officials visit local, state, and federal government organizations in the United States.”
Also included were the Cohen Group, a consulting firm started former Secretary of Defense under President Bill Clinton William Cohen and boasting General James Mattis as a principal advisor. The Washington Post was also visited by the delegation.
The program, ceased in 2014, now collaborates with the University of Cambridge, but the Ash Center retains two programs explicitly meant to assist CCP officials.
The Shanghai Executive Management Program “aims to provide senior officials in Shanghai municipal government agencies with perspectives on strategy, leadership, management of service delivery, urban planning and development, crisis management, and social policy.”
The China Leaders in Finance Program is “for senior executives from China’s banking sector,” which is predominantly state-owned.
A bastion of social justice, Harvard’s financial and business ties to an oppressive, racist, and neocolonialist regime account for a blistering display of hypocrisy.
