In Defence of Jiang Yurong

In Defence of Jiang Yurong

At her Harvard commencement ceremony in late May, Chinese student Jiang (“Luanna”) Yurong broadcast a message of unity—a call to look past divisions of nation and ideology. “Those who we label as enemies, they too are human,” she told her audience. “You may disagree with them, but hold onto them, as we are bound by something deeper than belief: our shared humanity.” There was more than a little of the New Testament in her philosophy; notably abs…