受中国共青团迫害的“中华第一才子”、哈佛博士获得德国政治庇护

受中国共青团迫害的哈佛博士获得德国政治庇护

Reuters: Germany Grants Asylum to China's Top Talent 

Nuremberg, Germany

The German government has concluded that the "Harvard Doctorate Incident" in China, which caused a national sensation twenty one years ago, was a case of political persecution orchestrated by government-backed media, China Youth Daily, against an US educated scholar.

The incident began with the questioning of Dr. Chen Lin's Harvard degree, despite there being no doubt about its authenticity. The Chinese Youth Daily fabricated evidence, accusing Dr. Chen of possessing a fake degree, leading to an ongoing and increasingly malicious defamation case that has spanned over two decades.

In June 2002, the Chinese Youth Daily published six articles making a series of accusations against Dr. Chen, who had recently returned to China from the USA. Contrary to mass media norms, the Chinese Youth Daily refused to allow Dr. Chen to respond, and other media did not investigate the veracity of the accusations beyond the Harvard degree, resulting in Dr. Chen carrying a bad reputation for over two decades.

An official from the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees in Nuremberg, Germany, responsible for reviewing this case, described it as a shocking case of persecution and cruelty, with state-media journalists being the perpetrators. They fabricated numerous falsified accusations while depriving Dr. Chen of the right to publicly respond to these accusations.

The German government's decision to grant asylum is based on the application materials submitted by Dr. Chen several years ago. Therefore, the German government is unaware of the most recent developments in this case over the past two years.

Recent developments include the Chinese authorities not only completely banning Dr. Chen's appeals and refutations in media across China but also mobilizing overseas cyberpolice and agents to marginalize, shadowban, or remove Dr. Chen's narratives on Western social media and overseas Chinese language websites. They have also largely banned Dr. Chen and his supporters' accounts, undermining Dr. Chen's effort to defend himself.

Additionally, there was an attempted assassination of Dr. Chen several months ago in Manhattan, New York, by an operative from the Communist Youth League/China Youth Daily.

Dr. Chen Lin, a graduate of Harvard and Stanford University and an expert in computational finance and quantum computing, is among the top talents sought after in China's modernization efforts. The motive behind the unprecedented media smear campaign against him by the Chinese Youth Daily, reminiscent of the Cultural Revolution era, remains a question.

There is a theory that suggests Dr. Chen may have been seen as a potential challenger by the Youth League faction within the Chinese Communist Party because he was the first and, at the time, the only Chinese to obtain a doctoral degree from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.