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Xi Jinping's daughter went to harvard? (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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?

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Ok, first of all, I think you handled it well. The worst thing you could have done was instinctively say something like "nu uh!! that sounds like western propaganda!" and then be completely proven wrong and forever lose credibility in that lib's (hopefully future leftist's) eyes.

Second, know your shit at least. It's pretty well known that Xi himself traveled to the US as young man. He has ties to some Iowa town or something. (https://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/16/world/asia/xi-jinping-of-china-makes-a-return-trip-to-iowa.html)

Third, if someone ever brings that dumb shit about his daughter up again, just mention how Tim Walz taught English in China and basically loves China (though he has super lib views on Tienanmen, Tibet, "organ harvesting", etc.). (https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/11/us/tim-walz-china.html)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

Imagine still believing in the organ harvesting nonsense