{"id":28356,"date":"2022-01-14T06:20:12","date_gmt":"2022-01-14T06:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lifeandnews.com\/articles\/?p=28356"},"modified":"2022-02-06T14:16:05","modified_gmt":"2022-02-06T14:16:05","slug":"president-daniels-stands-up-for-chinese-student-and-human-dignity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lifeandnews.com\/articles\/president-daniels-stands-up-for-chinese-student-and-human-dignity\/","title":{"rendered":"President Daniels Stands Up for Chinese Student and Human Dignity"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A Four article series Highlighting
\n<\/i>Transformation to the Power of Trust, The Center for Tech Diplomacy at Purdue and the Global Economic Security Strategy<\/strong><\/i> >> First<\/strong><\/a> >> Second<\/strong><\/a> >> Third<\/strong> >> Final<\/a><\/strong><\/i><\/p>\n

Answers Krach\u2019s Call for Safeguarding Academic Freedom<\/span><\/i><\/b> <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe CCP\u2019s actions pose an immense threat to academic freedom and to human dignity. We seek your assistance to see an improved, open, and transparent environment in which U.S. and Chinese scholars can engage with greater TRUST.\u201d<\/span><\/b> <\/span> <\/span>\u2014Under Secretary <\/span>Krach\u2019s letter to University Presidents, August 20, 2020<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

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The day before Krach\u2019s Purdue Commencement address, he <\/span>appeared<\/span><\/a> on the \u201cMornings with Maria\u201d news program and was asked about President Daniel\u2019s statement condemning the harassment of a Purdue Chinese student speaking out on behalf of freedom. The student had been harassed by his fellow Chinese classmates and China\u2019s secret police had threatened his family back in China. <\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

As ProPublica, who had <\/span>reported the initial story about the Chinese student<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>observed<\/span><\/a>, \u201cThe letter from Purdue University President Mitch Daniels last week was unflinching, unapologetic and unusual.\u201d<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cGood on Mitch Daniels\u201d<\/span><\/b> <\/span><\/p>\n

Krach stated, \u201cGood on Mitch Daniels for standing up against CCP intimidation. It shows great courage by Mitch. He\u2019s one of the few university presidents who will speak out on China\u2019s pervasive efforts to expand their ideological reach and censorship on college campuses.\u201d<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

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In its bullying confidence, China’s Communist Part is seeking to impose censorship around the world.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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In his statement<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/a>, Daniels denounced all forms of intimidation, which he called \u201cunacceptable and unwelcome on our campus,\u201d warning that any students involved in such intimidation would be subjection to \u201cdisciplinary action\u201d and \u201csignificant sanction.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/b> <\/span><\/i> <\/span><\/p>\n

Daniels emphasized that Purdue had hosted international students\u2014including nearly 200 Chinese students this previous fall\u2014for over a century. \u201cBut joining the Purdue community requires acceptance of its rules and values, and no value is more central to our institution or to higher education generally than the freedom of inquiry and expression,\u201d Daniels avowed. \u201cThose seeking to deny those rights to others, let alone to collude with foreign governments in repressing them, will need to pursue their education elsewhere.\u201d<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

Krach\u2019s Ask for Dealing with Immense Threat to Academic Freedom<\/span><\/b> <\/span><\/p>\n

A year before as Under Secretary of State, Krach sent a letter to all university presidents and boards <\/span>asking for their assistance<\/span><\/a> in dealing with the immense threat to academic freedom and to human dignity posed by the Chinese Communist Party\u2019s actions. <\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

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The world is watching and the integrity of our institutions is our hands. I look forward to working together to protect the freedoms we all hold dear.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In the letter, he wrote, \u201cOur concern is with the malign actions of the CCP and specific individuals, not with the Chinese people or many of the Chinese students in the U.S.<\/span><\/i><\/b> The good news is that our strongest ally in promoting academic freedom over authoritarianism is your\u2014STUDENTS. College Republicans and Democrats, like national elected officials, are united in the threat posed by the CCP.\u201d<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

In a letter signed by the <\/span>student leadership<\/span><\/a> of both the College Republican National Committee and the College Democrats of America, they stated: \u201cThe Chinese government\u2019s flagrant attempts to coerce and control discourse at U.S. universities pose an existential threat to academic freedom. It is a moral imperative that we protect that freedom. In the fight against authoritarianism, universities can continue to benefit from the largess of an emboldened authoritarian state, or they can stand on the right side of history. They cannot do both.\u201d<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

Unaware of Widespread CCP\u2019s Intimidation and Censorship<\/span><\/b> <\/span><\/p>\n

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“Boards have a moral obligation, and perhaps a fiduciary duty, to ensure that your institution has clean investments that are free from human-rights violations.”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Krach pointed out that when he was Chairman of the Board of Trustees at Purdue, he had no idea how widespread the CCP\u2019s intimidation and censorship had been at Purdue and on campuses across America. That\u2019s why as Under Secretary of State, he sent a letter to all universities about the real and urgent threat posed by the CCP to academic freedom, issued a forceful defense of human dignity, and called for the protection of university endowments, and safeguarding intellectual property.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

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Krach also emphasized, \u201cIf there is anything I learned as Purdue\u2019s board chair it is that academic freedom and freedom of speech is sacrosanct.\u201d He then praised Mitch Daniels by commenting, \u201cPresident Daniels is drawing a clear line. The students who made the threats will be subject to disciplinary action and significant sanctions for students who report classmates to any foreign entity for exercising their freedom of speech or belief.\u201d <\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

Krach First Official to Call Out Genocide in Xingjian <\/span><\/b> <\/span><\/p>\n

Krach was then asked, <\/span>\u201cDoes it tell you that the America is actually waking up to how bad the communist Chinese are, and it\u2019s not confined to their borders, they\u2019re expanding their ideological reach into our country?\u201d <\/span><\/i> <\/span><\/p>\n

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Now more than ever, U.S. firms doing business with Chinese companies must make sure their commerce and investments do not enable and perpetuate the PRC’s human rights abuses.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Krach pointed to a passage from his university letter: \u201cCitizens around the world are waking up to the truth about the CCP\u2019s three-prong strategy of concealment, co-option, and coercion. They now realize CCP\u2019s concealment of the virus resulted in the pandemic, its co-option of Hong Kong has eviscerated the freedoms of its citizens, and the coercion in Xinjiang grown into genocide continued in the brutal internment camps of. This is beginning to give the courage to brave leaders around the world to stand up to the CCP\u2019s increasingly bullying behavior. On both sides of the aisle in Washington, it has become one of the most passionately unifying bipartisan issues of our time.\u201d<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

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U.S. Under Secretary of State Keith Krach previously sent a letter warning business about ‘some of the most serious acts involving mass human rights abuses since WW II.”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Krach, as a former CEO of public companies, had already been a catalyst for waking up the business community. A month before his letter to universities, he sent a business advisory letter to CEOs of all US companies warning of using forced labor from Xingjian. Four days later, he put a big exclamation point on it. <\/span>Krach went on broadcast television on the Fourth of July and became the first executive branch government official to call out the Chinese Communist party\u2019s <\/span><\/i><\/b>genocide in Xingjian<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/a>.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

Nobody Should Bend a Knee to the China Bully<\/span><\/b> <\/span><\/p>\n

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“Why should I react when I can act? I am not going to bend a knee to emperor Xi.”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

When Krach <\/span>appeared<\/span><\/a> on \u201cThe Claman Countdown\u201d news program on his last full day in office, the show\u2019s host, Liz Claman, posed a prescient question: <\/span>\u201cChina has said they’re going to retaliate. You could possibly be on that list eventually, Keith. Do you expect to be sanctioned?\u201d<\/span><\/i> Krach responded, \u201cI think I already am, Liz. That’s a badge I will wear with honor. I am sanctioned not for what I said, but for serving my country and the results we achieved. Why should I react when I can act? I am not going to bend a knee to emperor Xi. And I don’t think anybody should bend a knee to the China bully. All I know is when you confront a bully, he backs down and they really, really back down if you have your friends by your side.\u201d <\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

For decades, the CCP has relied on three main pillars to exert its influence, spread its propaganda, and conduct espionage on American college campuses: Confucius Institutes, Chinese Students and Scholars Associations, and direct financial donations. Through these three pillars, the CCP has covertly exerted influence that has threatened academic freedom and free speech on American campuses. Yet many American universities have been willfully ignoring such threats to avoid jeopardizing their revenue stream from Chinese students and donations. President Daniels showed he would not allow himself, or Purdue University, to be blackmailed or intimidated by the CCP bully.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

Krach\u2019s Forever Friend Answers the Call<\/span><\/b> <\/span><\/p>\n

\"Governor
Board Chairman, Keith Krach announces Governor Mitch Daniels as Purdue’s 12th President and awards him with Purdue motorcycle jacket. Former President France Cordova joins in the fun.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As the Wall Street Journal observed<\/span><\/a>, \u201cIn its bullying confidence, China\u2019s Communist Party is seeking to impose its censorship around the world. Western institutions that do business with China or accept Chinese students will have to decide if they\u2019ll be bullied.\u201d In short, in the words of the Wall Street Journal editorial board, Daniels had courageously \u201c[let] Beijing know its sovereignty doesn\u2019t extend to the Purdue campus.\u201d<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

As it turned out, the man Krach recruited to serve as Purdue\u2019s President years ago, has proven Krach\u2019s forever friend standing up to the authoritarian bully, and in one highly publicized statement resolutely answered Krach\u2019s call to protect academic freedom.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

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This article is part of a four article series:<\/i><\/p>\n

\"Keith
\nKrach Delivers Powerful Purdue Commencement Address with Proof of Equation: Transformation to the Power of Trust<\/a><\/strong>
\nKrach tells grads, \u201cThe world needs more trusted transformational leaders than ever before,\u201d in inspiring commencement address.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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\nPurdue Forms World\u2019s First Institute for Tech Diplomacy Through Transformation and Trust<\/a><\/strong>
\nKrach, Glick, and Mung Continue Their Transformational Mission of Advancing Freedom through Trusted Technology<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

\"President
\nPresident Daniels Stands Up for Chinese Student and Human Dignity<\/a><\/strong>
\nAnswers Krach\u2019s Call for Safeguarding Academic Freedom<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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\nTrust and Diversity of Thought is the Catalyst for Transformational Genius<\/a><\/strong>
\n\u201cIf You Want a Friend in Washington, Get a Dog.\u201d
\nKrach Did Something Better\u2026<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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