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New York Times Columnist Nicholas Kristof's Wife, Recently Appointed Vice Chair of Harvard Board of Overseers, Is a Member of a Beijing-Aligned Group Linked to Chinese Government
Kristof, who worked as a Times correspondent in Beijing alongside wife Sheryl WuDunn, predicted Xi Jinping would bring 'political easing' and change to China
Collin Anderson
May 28, 2026
The wife of embattled New York Times columnist Nick Kristof, who along with Kristof worked as a Times correspondent in China and was recently appointed vice chair of the executive committee of Harvard's Board of Overseers, is a member of a Chinese government-linked group known for "doing Beijing's bidding in the US."
The group, the New York-based Committee of 100, works to strengthen relations between the United States and China—or "bridge America and China," as its website states. The committee's membership roster includes Sheryl WuDunn, touting her as a "co-author with her husband, columnist Nicholas D. Kristof, of five best-selling nonfiction books." It also includes a number of Chinese Americans with extensive ties to Chinese Communist Party-linked groups.
Committee member Ronnie Chan, for example, serves on the board of the China-United States Exchange Foundation, a "registered foreign agent bankrolled by a high-ranking Chinese government official with close ties to a sprawling Chinese Communist Party apparatus that handles influence operations abroad," according to Foreign Policy. Another member, Yu Meng, was reportedly recruited by China's Thousand Talents Program—which the FBI considers part of "China's non-traditional espionage against the United States"—to work as deputy chief investment officer of the Chinese government agency State Administration of Foreign Exchange. Meng told the official CCP newspaper People's Daily in 2017 that he took the job out of "a deep affection for my motherland; my roots are in China." The People's Daily has since deleted the article.
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