There’s Nothing MAGA About 500,000 Student Visas For The CCP
Chinese students come to milk our education system and then bring their newfound education back to China to make China great.Chinese students come to milk our education system and then bring their newfound education back to China to make China great.
America’s addiction to Chinese money runs deeper than we care to admit
In a recent interview, President Trump defended his earlier claim that bringing 600,000 Chinese college students into the United States would be good for the country. When the interviewer questioned how that aligned with an America First agenda, Trump replied that without those students, “Half the colleges in America would go out of business.”
To most Trump supporters, that sounds like a win-win — fewer foreign students and fewer left-wing universities to subsidize. But Trump seemed to view the issue as a business transaction: Closing locations is bad, losing revenue is bad, and the substance of those “economic units” doesn’t really matter.
Why should we play Russian roulette with our national security to pad universities’ bottom lines?
His comments revealed a deeper confusion about what America First really means.
The China contradiction
America’s relationship with China has long been incoherent. Every Republican politician insists China is our chief geopolitical rival — a totalitarian power bent on unseating the United States as global hegemon. Yet few make any effort to restrict Chinese immigration, investment, or influence. At some point, it becomes difficult to take any of the rhetoric seriously.
The problem is obvious: China has too many people and too much money. The country’s strength lies in what America abandoned: manufacturing. While American corporations chased financial gimmicks and “service economies,” China focused on making tangible goods at scale. That discipline built a vast middle class and positioned Beijing at the center of global production. Now nearly every Western industry — film, retail, education — depends on access to China’s markets.
The result: American institutions bend over backward to please a government they claim to fear. Chinese nationals can buy land, start companies, and enroll by the hundreds of thousands in U.S. universities. It would be funny if it weren’t so corrupt.
The university addiction
Trump knows mass immigration hurts Americans, but he struggles to say no when big money is involved. Foreign students pour billions into universities, and administrators have built their entire business models around them. But counting up dollars isn’t the same as serving the national interest.
Universities are publicly subsidized and supposedly dedicated to educating Americans first and foremost. Instead, they’ve turned into pipelines credentialing foreign elites — and sometimes, spies. Every seat filled by a Chinese student is one less for an American, and every dollar that props up a hostile regime’s protégés deepens our dependence on that regime.
The Department of Justice has charged three Chinese nationals at the University of Michigan for smuggling research materials and stealing technology. Eric Weinstein has even suggested that theoretical physics is being throttled for fear of espionage. Yet the universities — and now, apparently, Trump — seem unfazed.
Why save the enemy’s seminary?
Propping up higher education with Chinese cash isn’t just shortsighted — it’s insane. Colleges and universities have become leftist seminaries, charging astronomical tuition for courses that teach Americans to despise their parents and their nation. They already receive lavish government subsidies and still demand more.
Trump’s claim that “half the colleges” would collapse without Chinese money is dubious, but if it were true, those institutions deserve to fail. Let them. Destroying the patronage networks that produce radical activists was once a Trumpian goal. Reviving them with foreign money would be an act of political masochism. Why should we play Russian roulette with our national security to pad their bottom line?
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The broader threat
Chinese money poisons more than academia. Nationals and shell companies routinely buy American land — including, alarmingly, property near military bases. One recent purchase of an RV park in Missouri by a Chinese couple just happened to place them next to Whiteman Air Force Base, home of the B-2 stealth bomber fleet. Similar shadowy transactions dot the map.
The pandemic exposed the madness of this dependence. The same regime that unleashed a virus on the world also controlled the supply chains for the medicine and protective gear we needed to fight it. Yet America’s political class still refuses to sever the tie. They are too addicted to Chinese money — and too invested in pretending that dependency equals diplomacy.
If the GOP is serious about confronting China, it must start by cutting every cord of reliance. Banning Chinese students from U.S. universities would be a simple, symbolic first step — and it would strike directly at the heart of the progressive academic machine.
American universities should be for Americans
During a press gaggle this week, President Trump casually announced that the United States would allow 600,000 Chinese nationals to enter the country as college students. He has long focused on improving relations with China, but the idea of importing and educating such numbers runs against the America First instincts of his voters.
When Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick was asked why these students were so important, he admitted that many U.S. universities would go out of business without foreign enrollment. For the right, that sounds less like a warning and more like a promise.
Republicans once opposed bailouts for failing businesses. Why make an exception for universities that train activists and foreigners to despise America?
Ending large-scale immigration from a rival power while letting bankrupt institutions fail should be an easy win. Instead, the Trump administration seems poised to prop up anti-American universities by training the children of our most dangerous adversary.
Why import students from our greatest rival?
Every conservative politician and pundit insists that China is America’s foremost threat. It has a massive population, vast economic leverage, deep investments in resources, and ambitions to expand its sphere of influence. Its military is large, its weapons advanced, and its spies operate regularly on U.S. soil. A hot war may be unlikely, but it is fair to call China our greatest economic and geopolitical rival. So why are we welcoming Chinese nationals into the country, much less into our most prestigious schools?
America’s broader immigration crisis has already ravaged our job market, housing market, health system, and education system. Illegal immigration rightly comes first: Illegal aliens are unvetted, often smuggled in by cartels and gangs, and begin their stay by breaking the law.
But the public is waking up to the damage caused by legal immigration as well. The administration recently admitted there are 55 million active visa holders eligible to enter the United States — a number equal to the combined populations of Florida and Texas. Voters want both illegal immigration ended and legal immigration slashed.
Chinese nationals should be first on the block. If China is truly our enemy, why would we let any of its citizens inside? The Chinese state is infamous for espionage. Its spy network has penetrated American government, military, corporations, and universities. These spies don’t just chase classified secrets; they steal research and technology from labs and departments. Commentators like Eric Weinstein have suggested that universities slow their own programs for fear that breakthroughs will be stolen by foreign students. America is holding back its own scientific progress to import spies. That’s insane.
Educating tomorrow’s rivals
The danger goes beyond espionage. Universities don’t just teach skills; they confer the credentials that grant access to elite institutions in business, science, and government. A Chinese student who returns home brings knowledge and prestige that strengthen a rival nation. One who stays uses that same credential to climb into elite corporations or agencies that shape American culture, policy, and economy. Why would we seed our leadership class with foreign nationals from our chief adversary?
This also raises the question of whom our universities exist to serve. In a Fox News interview, Howard Lutnick admitted outright that these Chinese students would displace Americans from top universities. That isn’t speculation; it’s an open admission. Under an America First agenda, displacing native students for the children of foreign rivals is indefensible. Taxpayer-backed institutions must put American children first.
The bailout excuse
Lutnick argues that Chinese students keep universities solvent. Foreign students pay higher tuition and receive less aid. So what? The idea that universities are too big to fail and must be bailed out with foreign visas is laughable. Many schools already hoard enormous endowments. If others collapse, that’s the market working. Republicans once opposed bailouts for failing businesses. Why make an exception for universities that train activists and foreigners to despise America?
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The truth is that universities are ideology factories. They churn out left-wing radicals who hate America and despise Christianity. Yes, we still need doctors and engineers, but there is no reason to subsidize this industry with mass immigration. Republicans should be forcing universities to purge their bias or lose government funding. Instead, they are keeping them afloat with students from a hostile foreign power.
America First means Americans first
Trump often makes sweeping statements he never intends to enact. This may be a bargaining ploy in negotiations with Xi Jinping. But sovereignty should never be a chip in trade talks. Chinese enrollment peaked at 372,000 in 2020 and fell to 277,000 in 2024. Now the administration is talking about more than doubling it. The correct number isn’t 600,000. It isn’t 277,000. It’s zero.
The United States should stop importing enemies to enrich its ruling class. American universities should exist for Americans. That is what America First must mean.
China’s espionage efforts are ramping up — and it’s a massive threat
President Donald Trump’s plan to allow 600,000 Chinese student visas to be issued has Americans on the right outraged.
"I think it's very insulting to say students can't come here. Because they'll go out and start building schools and they'll be able to survive it. But I like that their students come here. I like that other countries' students come here,” Trump said during a Cabinet meeting.
“And you know what would happen if they didn't? Our college system would go to hell very quickly. And it wouldn't be the top colleges; it would be colleges that struggle on the bottom. And you take out 300,000 or 600,000 students out of the system," Trump continued.
"I like having — and I told this to President Xi, that we're honored to have their students here," he added.
Blaze media co-founder Glenn Beck is among those shocked by Trump’s move.
“You have to be close to the CCP to be able to travel to the United States, don’t you? You have to be well connected with the Communist Party,” Glenn says to investigative journalist and author Peter Schweizer.
“Yeah, that’s right, Glenn,” Schweizer answers. “I mean, look, the reason I think that Trump is allowing this to happen is because this is a top priority for Xi and they’re trying to negotiate a whole bunch of things, but I still think it is a mistake.”
“There are 600,000 Chinese students that come to the United States. American students going to China is a trickle. So this is not about an exchange of ideas,” he continues.
“The entire premise behind the student exchanges going back to the 1980s is that this would make the Chinese elite more like us, right? They get to know us, they become friendly, they become more Americanized. The vast majority of the hard-line aides around President Xi were educated in the United States, primarily at places like Harvard,” he explains.
This is why Schweizer believes “it’s not working.”
“The Chinese leadership is actually more hard-line now than it was under Hu Jintao or under Deng Xiaoping. And they’re more Western-educated,” he says.
And what these 600,000 students are studying is even more cause for concern.
“They’re not coming here to study comparative literature or sociology. The vast, vast majority, over 90%, are in the hard sciences,” Schweizer says, adding, “So it is stealing our secrets.”
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From Wuhan to Michigan: Feds nab ANOTHER Chinese scholar in alleged bio-material smuggling plot
Federal authorities arrested another University of Michigan scholar from China this week, revealing an alarming pattern of potential national security threats.
Chengxuan Han is facing federal charges for attempting to smuggle biological material into the United States, according to a criminal case filed Monday and reviewed by the Detroit News.
'The American taxpayer should not be underwriting a (People's Republic of China)-based smuggling operation at one of our crucial public institutions.'
Han is pursuing a doctorate at the College of Life Science and Technology in the Huazhong University of Science and Technology in Wuhan, China, and was invited to participate in a visiting scholar program at UM.
From September to March, while in China, she allegedly mailed four packages containing "biological material related to round worms" to the UM Professor Laboratory, according to prosecutors. The recipients of the packages were not named.
Interim U.S. Attorney Jerome Gorgon stated that Han obtained the biological materials from the Wuhan university.
On Sunday evening, Han arrived at the Detroit Metropolitan Airport after catching a flight from Shanghai.
An FBI agent claimed that Han, while undergoing secondary inspection at the airport, "made false statements that she had not sent packages to members of the UM Lab."
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"When pressed, Han admitted that she had shipped packages to members of the UM Lab. Han initially stated to (Customs and Border Patrol) officers that the packages were plastic cups (rather than petri dishes) and a book (omitting the envelope with suspected biological materials concealed in it)," the FBI agent wrote.
During another interview with the FBI, Han "admitted to sending the packages, admitted that the packages contained biological material related to round worms, and admitted to making false statements to the CBP officers during her inspection," prosecutors' argued.
Han told federal authorities that the concealed or mis-manifested biological material included Nematode Growth Medium, a formulation used to cultivate microscopic roundworms, and plasmids, small and circular DNA molecules in bacteria and some microscopic organisms.
According to the FBI, Han claimed she sent one of the packages "as a 'game' with clues written above each plasmid."
Han also allegedly deleted the contents of her electronic device a few days before arriving in Michigan.
According to the complaint, “Han stated she deleted the content to ‘start fresh’ while she was in the United States.”
Gorgon called Han's alleged attempt to smuggle in the material "an alarming pattern that threatens our security."
"The American taxpayer should not be underwriting a (People's Republic of China)-based smuggling operation at one of our crucial public institutions," the interim U.S. attorney added.
CBP Acting Director of Field Operations John Nowak stated, "The guidelines for importing biological materials into the U.S. for research purposes are stringent, but clear, and actions like this undermine the legitimate work of other visiting scholars."
Han faces up to 20 years in federal prison if convicted.
Her attorney, Rhonda Brazile, declined a request for comment from the Detroit News. UM did not respond to the outlet's request for comment.
Last week, another University of Michigan scholar and her boyfriend, both from China, were arrested by federal authorities for allegedly attempting to smuggle a potential bioweapon into the U.S.
These arrests come just days after Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that the Trump administration would "begin revoking visas of Chinese students, including those with connections to the Chinese Communist Party or studying in critical fields."
However, President Donald Trump indicated on Wednesday that his administration would be pulling back those efforts, citing a new trade deal with China.
He wrote in a post on Truth Social, “OUR DEAL WITH CHINA IS DONE, SUBJECT TO FINAL APPROVAL WITH PRESIDENT XI AND ME. FULL MAGNETS, AND ANY NECESSARY RARE EARTHS, WILL BE SUPPLIED, UP FRONT, BY CHINA. LIKEWISE, WE WILL PROVIDE TO CHINA WHAT WAS AGREED TO, INCLUDING CHINESE STUDENTS USING OUR COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES (WHICH HAS ALWAYS BEEN GOOD WITH ME!). WE ARE GETTING A TOTAL OF 55% TARIFFS, CHINA IS GETTING 10%. RELATIONSHIP IS EXCELLENT! THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!”
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Agroterrorism plot? Chinese nationals arrested for smuggling potential bioweapon into US: FBI
Federal authorities arrested two Chinese nationals after they were accused of attempting to smuggle a potential bioweapon into the United States, claiming they wanted to use it to conduct research at the University of Michigan.
On Tuesday, the Department of Justice announced charges against Yunqing Jian, 33, and her boyfriend, 34-year-old Zunyong Liu.
'These two aliens have been charged with smuggling a fungus that has been described as a "potential agroterrorism weapon" into the heartland of America, where they apparently intended to use a University of Michigan laboratory to further their scheme.'
According to authorities, Liu arrived in the U.S. with a bag of fungus, Fusarium graminearum, which could be used as a potential agricultural terrorism weapon. The biological pathogen causes a devastating disease in wheat, barley, maize, and rice, the Detroit News reported.
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An FBI agent claimed in a criminal filing that Liu made “false statements” to Customs and Border Protection officers regarding his reason for visiting the U.S. and his knowledge of the fungus in his possession.
“Ultimately, Liu admitted to smuggling the pathogen and stated that he brought the pathogen into the United States so that he could conduct research on it at a laboratory at the University of Michigan where his girlfriend, Jian, worked,” the agent wrote.
Interim U.S. Attorney Jerome Gorgon stated, “The alleged actions of these Chinese nationals — including a loyal member of the Chinese Communist Party — are of the gravest national security concerns.”
“These two aliens have been charged with smuggling a fungus that has been described as a ‘potential agroterrorism weapon’ into the heartland of America, where they apparently intended to use a University of Michigan laboratory to further their scheme,” Gorgon added.
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The federal charges follow President Donald Trump’s crackdown on China’s infiltration of American universities.
Last week, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that the administration would implement new visa restrictions on Chinese students.
He wrote in a post on X, “The U.S. will begin revoking visas of Chinese students, including those with connections to the Chinese Communist Party or studying in critical fields.”
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Substitute teacher, 70, suspended after telling Chinese-American fifth-graders their parents left China because it's communist, COVID created in Chinese lab
A 70-year-old substitute teacher was suspended after telling a Brooklyn classroom of mostly Chinese-American fifth-graders that their parents left China because it's a communist country and that COVID-19 was created in a Chinese lab, the New York Daily News reported.
What are the details?
Peshe Schiller was filling in Thursday for an absent teacher in the gifted and talented class at P.S. 204 in Bensonhurst, the paper said, adding that a parent said 24 of the 27 students in the class are Chinese-Americans.
Schiller and the fifth-graders began discussing vaccines and COVID-19, the Daily News said, adding that parents said she declared that the virus was created in a lab.
But she noted to the paper that "we were talking about how vaccines were developed and why, and this kid out of nowhere said, 'the virus was produced by animals.' I said everyone has their own opinion but I heard on the news that it was developed in a laboratory."
Students also claimed Schiller said all Chinese people are communists, people who visit the country end up dead, and China has no religious freedom, the Daily News said.
"Today we had a racist teacher," one student wrote in classroom notes that the paper reviewed. "She said Covid-19 was made in a lab by China. She also said China had no freedom of religion. Not true obviously."
But Schiller told the Daily News she described China as "a communist country, and they don't have freedom" and that their parents left the country because "they wanted you to have freedom" and "that's why you're here."
"Maybe they were upset that I said China is a communist country, they took offense to that," she added to the paper. "But it is."
Parents are angry
Parents are outraged, saying Schiller's alleged comments were insensitive and inappropriate for elementary school kids, the Daily News said.
"It's outrageous to bring anything political like this forward to a group of 10-year-olds," one parent who spoke on the condition of anonymity told the paper.
"Why would ... a teacher talk to a bunch of 10-year-olds like that?" another parent wondered, according to the Daily News. "I feel like this is more than racist; it's more like bullying."
One parent said, "I asked myself, 'Why would she say that?' Is it because the majority of the class is Asian?" the paper reported.
Schiller denied to the Daily News she said anything racist, adding that the accusing students may have made things up because Schiller reprimanded them for using a bathroom on the wrong floor.
Now, after teaching for 37 years, Schiller is barred from her job while the New York City Department of Education's Office of Equal Opportunity investigates, the paper said.
More accusations
One parent also said several students reported that Schiller described Filipinos as dirty and that she pulled down her mask to describe her dislike of Mayor Bill de Blasio's vaccine mandate, the Daily News said.
But Schiller denied to the paper that she made any comments about Filipinos and said that she got vaccinated before the DOE's mandate.
What did school district officials have to say?
Parents said an aide overheard students talking about Schiller during lunch and that administrators pulled her from the classroom and sent a guidance counselor to talk with students the next day, the Daily News said.
"Hateful and racist behavior has absolutely no place in our schools and this substitute was immediately suspended and removed from our classrooms following this deeply disturbing allegation," DOE spokeswoman Katie O'Hanlon told the paper. "Schools must be safe havens, and the school offered counseling and support to these students."
One parent told the Daily News that the situation shows that not even elementary students are immune to anti-Asian behavior that's spiked in New York City this year and elsewhere.
"It's kind of alarming," the parent added to the paper. "It taught me a lesson that I need...to start teaching them at this young age to pay attention to these kinds of issues. That even if an adult talks like that you need to speak up. School is supposed to be a safe place and unfortunately it's not in this case."
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