NAIS Schools invited the red dragon into its gates with an increasing number of Chinese affiliated partnerships and trustees. NAIS boarding schools even reserve special Board seats for the Chinese. At the undercovermother.substa… Alliance), Concord Academy(MA) Trustee Jane Du is executive of Wahaha Group and established the 3Js Investment Group. Andover (MA) Trustee Yichen Zhang is Senior Vice Chairman of Center for China and Globalization. Lawrenceville’s (NJ) Board has three Chinese nationals with significantChinese businesses including Alibaba cofounder and Brooklyn Nets owner Joe Tsai whose foundation launched the Social Justice Fund which committed $50 billion to address purported racial justice issues in Brooklyn. Mmm…okay… Hotchkiss (CT) Alum and Trustee Nisa Leung ran the seventh largest venture fund in China in biotech before stepping down when the House Select Committee on the CCP released findings the fund was associated with the CCP’s surveillance state, human rights abuses, PLA, and companies blacklisted by the US government. The father of Deerfield (MA) Alum and Trustee (Yilun) Jack Chen is, among other things, on the board of Xiaomi and married to Mao Zedong’s granddaughter – ensuring authoritarian expansionism remains firmly within the family. Are you getting it yet?

For China, it’s not merely getting an American education or trade, China is looking to capture institutions from within and purchase influence and ownership outright.