Silicon Valley Innovator Keith Krach Calls on Universities to Withdraw Investments in Communist China
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10.21.22According to a report on Oct 14th, Silicon Valley titan Keith Krach recently published an open letter calling on universities to divest investments from Chinese companies involved in Communist China’s genocide of the Uyghur population.
Krach, who has served as the State Department’s Under Secretary for Economy during Trump’s presidency and now chairs Purdue University’s Krach Institute for Technology Diplomacy repeated his call to university management in an interview last week with Nury A.Turkel, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute. He strongly recommended that board members of the university should support divest investments to any companies involved in the Chinese Communist Party(CCP)’s mass detention of Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities in Xinjiang.
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