Because China has bought them.
“Why should institutes of learning in the world’s leading democracy be blackmailed and used by the communists in Beijing? Why should we prove to be the useful idiots and helpers to a regime which oppresses its own people and wants to replace this country as the world´s dominant power? Why, in short, are we actually being bought up by our main international competitor”
“It´s about whose side you are on. It would be good to know that American universities were on America’s side — for once.”