> Mike Pompeo delivered a speech at Georgia Tech on Wednesday about the Chinese Communist party’s undue influence on American higher education. According to the secretary of state, the Massachusetts Institute for Technology rejected his attempts to give the same speech on their campus. The reason why is now a matter of public dispute. > The State Department contends that MIT was worried the speech’s subject matter could be offensive to the school’s Chinese students. Pompeo publicly admonished this line of thinking during his Georgia Tech speech: > ‘Why do schools censor themselves? They often do it out of fear of offending China. Indeed I must tell you that MIT wasn’t interested in having me to their campus to give this exact set of remarks. President Raphael Reif implied that my arguments might insult their ethnic Chinese students and professors. But of course nothing could further from the truth. These are the very people that this set of remarks is intended to protect, to protect their freedoms.’