On Saturday, April 20, Cosette Wu disrupted a talk by the Chinese ambassador to the United States, Xie Feng, at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. "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 the university’s police department logged as an assault, forcibly dragged her from the event.

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