Harvard Punished a Student for Disrupting the Chinese Ambassador. The Chinese National Who...

"You robbed Hong Kongers of the most fundamental freedoms and devastated their democracy," Wu, then a Harvard junior, shouted from the audience, according to videos of the disruption that went viral on social media. "Now, in my country Taiwan, you sought to do the same."

In a year of unruly protests on Harvard's campus, which included the occupation of a major building, the assault of an Israeli graduate student, and a three-week-long encampment that featured calls for the destruction of the Jewish state, Wu's heckling of a Communist apparatchik, and the rhetoric she employed, were comparatively tame.

That made it all the more shocking when a Harvard student from mainland China grabbed Wu and, in an incident that the university's police department logged as an assault, forcibly dragged her from the event.