Beaconism Backs Campus Crackdowns

Some Chinese liberal intellectuals and diaspora commentators, who idealize U.S. liberal democracy ('Beaconism'), now defend Trump’s intervention at Harvard as stopping 'bullying' rather than censorship. This reframes U.S. higher‑ed enforcement actions as restoring liberal order, not undermining it. — It shows how external and immigrant perspectives can legitimize or recast U.S. culture‑war policy, shaping coalitions and the global narrative around academic freedom and governance.