Had someone mention this to me in conversation this weekend. Not something I knew, but honestly, not something I really cared about either. I just said a lot of Chinese nationals attend American university. A large part of the student population in the university/town I live in is Chinese. They followed up with “Sure, a specific class of Chinese though right?”. My response being ,“Yeah wealthy business owners send their kids here.” They said “I was just surprised, wouldn’t he worry about her getting indoctrinated?” I said they get taught Marxism from like kindergarten, so no, probably not.
It really felt like a strange thing to bring up. I forget the context it came up in. This wasn’t presented as some counter argument to anything, bit I do wonder where this little factoid comes from.
I see that RFA reported on her being outed as going to Harvard and the person getting jail time for it (for what its worth). Other then that, nothing substantial really.
So what’s up with this? Is this some kind of lingering gotcha fed to libs to regurgitate when the topic is right?
No one cares about Xi’s family. And even if they did, the recent fearmongering over chinese spies have made chinese students reconsider going to western colleges.