China's president's daughter is at Harvard. That's a big warning sign

Taiwan News, established in 1949, recently carried an article saying President Xi's daughter, having graduated from Harvard in 2014, is now back there. And that it is likely for her own safety. The safe space movement at Harvard peaked in 2016 and is still doing things to make its students feel less threatened. But Xi Mingze would not feel threatened by old paintings of long -dead white men, as some other Harvard students are.

Her father charmed his way to the top job in China and once there consolidated his position by eliminating his rivals in an anti-corruption campaign. Then he had himself made president for life. The next step for a Chinese dictator would be to establish a dynasty. Chairman Mao had wanted to establish a dynasty, but his only son capable of the role, Mao Anying, was killed by a U.S. airstrike on November 25, 1950 during the Korean War.

For President Xi to start a dynasty, his only daughter has to get married. At 27, she is of age when she should get married. But it can't be to someone of peasant stock. It has to be to one of China's princelings — or "Revolutionary Successors," as they prefer to be known. President Xi has stressed the need for "red genes" in China's rulers. The problem is that all the princelings are all already very wealthy, so marrying into the Xi family wealth would be of no consequence. China's princesses do well, too. The Huawei executive arrested in Canada, Meng Wanzhou, has a stepsister, Annabel Yeo, who had her debut into high society at Le Bal des Débutantes Paris November 2018.

For a princeling, if you married Xi's daughter, you would become consort to the empress, but there would be a downside: you would be killed in any palace coup.

[Xi Mingze at Harvard means that a coup is possible in China.]

I wouldn’t read too much into this. Harvard is a prestigious name attended by scions of the powerful much as Oxbridge was during the heyday of the Empire. At the same time, coups are not unprecedented in Communist China. Mao’s handpicked successor was removed in a bloodless coup.

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Discreetly, I assume. Harvard actually has a staff of people who are very experienced in handling the children of folks like this, and their security requirements. Harvard is very good at keeping the details to themselves.

There are many celebrity children, children of “important” people there. Most other students pretty much ignore them, and the smarter “important” offspring do NOT draw attention to themselves. Xi’s daughter, as far as I know, fell into that category. My older son saw her a couple of times, but she really didn’t make a ripple.

That being said, malia obama did not belong to that group. My younger son would see her around campus (he graduated, I think in her freshman year), and he was unimpressed.

but his only son capable of the role, Mao Anying, was killed by a U.S. airstrike on November 25, 1950 during the Korean War.

There's no evidence Mao cared about creating a Dynasty or even cared about his children. He was married 4 times. The first was a local arranged marriage in his youth. He had 3 other sons with his 3rd wife, but the whereabouts of some of those children are unknown. Besides this, its widely known that Mao slept with any young woman who he found attractive. There's probably dozens of his biological children throughout China. He was a real narcissist who literally was only concerned with political power in his allotted time. Nothing else mattered.

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