INTERVIEW/A discussion with Cosette Wu, the woman behind the Harvard speech disruption
04/26/2024 11:25 PM
"You robbed Hong Kongers of the most fundamental freedom and devastated their democracy. Now in my country Taiwan, you sought to do the same." A yell from the audience disrupts the Chinese Ambassador to the United States Xie Feng's (謝鋒) speech at Harvard University that marked the opening of the Harvard Kennedy School China Conference 2024 on April 20.
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