Harvard Advised Chinese Government Group Sanctioned For Uyghur Human Rights Abuses

Harvard’s Ash Center worked with a now-sanctioned Chinese group which committed “serious human rights abuses.” Following a National Pulse exposé on the prestigious Harvard Kennedy School Ash Center’s Chinese Communist Party links, the Trump administration sanctioned an entity the center has collaborated with: the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps. The Treasury Department moved to sanction the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC), its former Political Commissar, and its former Deputy Party Secretary and Commander on Friday for “serious human rights abuse against ethnic minorities in Xinjiang, which reportedly include mass arbitrary detention and severe physical abuse.” XPCC, however, has liaised