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The Chronicle, which describes itself as “The Independent Daily at Duke University,” rails against Duke’s recent naming of Gao Xiqing, the general manager of the China Investment Corporation (CIC), to its board of trustees. It writes that:

Although we [the authors of the piece] have great admiration for the Chinese people, their culture and their achievements, all enhanced by the stunning success of the Beijing Olympics, their tyrannical government merits our condemnation. And Gao is a creature of that government, born of it, beholden to it and now begetting of it. His elevation to the Duke Board is highly inappropriate.

How can the same Duke Trustees who established a policy to bar investment in Darfur because of genocide, who divested from South Africa because of apartheid, who stood for free speech at the Palestinian conference, now accept in their midst a leader of the repressive Chinese regime that overruns all these values. Indeed a leader whose financial acumen will nourish the regime!