A protester who loudly disrupted a speech at Harvard by Chinese Ambassador Xie Feng on the eve of a visit by Secretary of State Antony Blinken to China said she did it to discourage world-class universities from "kowtowing to China" despite committing human rights abuses.
Harvard junior Cosette Wu, who grew up in Hawaii with Taiwanese parents, stood up with a banner that read "China Lies" during Xie's speech to the Kennedy School of Government on Sunday, shouting loudly about the ruling Chinese Communist Party's political crackdown in Hong Kong and its threat to invade democratic Taiwan. As Xie was speaking, Wu stood up suddenly and yelled: "Xie Feng, you paint an image of a prosperous China, but your hands are painted with blood!"
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