Bipartisan lawmakers, political figures, and advocates have called on American universities to divest from China over its human rights abuses.
A letter from the Athenai Institute, a student-led advocacy group targeting Chinese influence on college campuses, to the presidents and governing boards of America’s leading public universities calls for divesting from all entities complicit in the Chinese Communist Party’s “global campaign to exterminate the culture, religion, and language of the Uyghur people” along with other repressive practices on the part of Beijing.
Metz’s letter bears the signature of dozens of prominent lawmakers, activists, journalists, and organizations across the political spectrum, including Nikki Haley, who served as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.), Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-N.Y.), Hong Kong Watch, the Human Rights Foundation, the College Republican National Committee, College Democrats of America, the Tibet Action Institute, and Elisha Weisel, the son of Holocaust survivor and author Elie Weisel.
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