Three House Republican committee chairs have threatened Harvard University’s nonprofit status over alleged interactions with the Chinese and Iranian governments.

Harvard repeatedly trained members of a Chinese “paramilitary organization” after the U.S. government sanctioned the group for its role in the Uyghur genocide, The Washington Free Beacon reported in April.

Harvard hosted and trained members of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC), which the U.S. Department of the Treasury described as a “paramilitary organization … that is subordinate to the Chinese Communist Party” while announcing sanctions on the group in 2020, the Free Beacon reported.

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