Chinese students come to milk our education system and then bring their newfound education back to China to make China great.
When President Donald Trump descended the escalator in June of 2015, he reminded Americans of something many of their leaders had forgotten: “Our country has tremendous potential. We have tremendous people.”
And he was right — Americans are tremendous people with tremendous potential, which is why it’s so disheartening that the same man now says he wants to give 500,000 Chinese nationals student visas.
Trump told Fox News’ Sean Hannity on Thursday that he doesn’t want to “insult” China by denying student visas to some half a million Chinese nationals.
“‘I don’t want any students’ is a very insulting thing to say to a country,” Trump told Hannity — as if not insulting China should ever be a top priority or a consideration on which to base policy decisions. “If you don’t have those students, good students by the way … if you want to see a university system die, take a half a million people out of it. … The ones that won’t be hurt are the top schools; the top schools will do fine. But your lower schools … the ones that don’t do quite as well, those schools, they’ll be dying all over the place.”
The remarks are similar to comments he made last year, claiming it is “very important” to allow 600,000 Chinese students to attend American colleges, otherwise lower-tiered colleges would struggle to stay in business.
But as The Federalist’s Shawn Fleetwood wrote in these pages last year, “The correct number of Chinese nationals who should be allowed to study at American universities is zero.”
Part of the “America First” movement that Trump revived — and in many ways expanded — is that Americans should be prioritized in every instance, including education. Displacing hundreds of thousands of Americans so that foreign nationals from a hostile regime can take their places is the opposite of America First. Americans should not be forced to compete with the globe for a spot at one of their own institutions, especially not with citizens of a country that routinely spies on us, steals our intellectual property, and tried to kill us all with a virus in 2020.
Further, the national security risks of importing hundreds of thousands of Chinese nationals for “education” are numerous. Last May a Chinese national who was admitted to the University of Minnesota as a graduate student was deported after he was convicted for taking pictures of “military installations” in Virginia with a drone. As Fleetwood pointed out, it’s not that all Chinese students studying in America are CCP operatives, but “given China’s existing national security laws, however, Americans are right to be concerned.”
Trump also should not forget that a number of our institutions still offer high-quality teaching that should not be wasted on educating and refining the next generation of Chinese people. American institutions should be for Americans.
It’s rather bizarre that the America First president appears willing to accept Chinese nationals displacing Americans so long as it helps prop up struggling colleges further down the totem pole. If the American university system cannot survive without importing foreigners, then that institution deserves to go under. Further, it’s self-defeating for a nation supposedly trying to compete with China to allow its own nationals to displace Americans at our top institutions.
But that’s not all the president said in his interview with Hannity. --->READ MORE HERE
President Donald Trump angered many in his MAGA base this week by making the case to Fox News’s Sean Hannity for allowing 500,000 Chinese students in the collegiate system. Trump also argued for allowing China to own farmland in the United States, something he had long railed against.
“I would assume I’m in Beijing if I wanted to buy property near one of their military installations. I don’t think President Xi–” Hannity pressed at one point, noting China would not allow the U.S. to own farmland next to its sensitive national security sites.
“No, they wouldn’t let you. Look, it’s not that I love it. You want to see farm prices drop. You want to see farmers lose a lot of money, just take that out of the market. But they’ve had a lot of land for a long time. Obama did nothing about it. They bought a lot during the Obama administration, and he did nothing about it,” Trump replied, adding:
As far as the students, it’s 500,000 students they come—good students. I could tell them, “I don’t want any students,” is a very insulting thing to say to a country. They would then immediately go out and start building universities all over China. But if you don’t have those students—good students, by the way—if you don’t, and we do another thing, you know, if they’re good and they want to stay in America, we won’t give them a green card and things like that. You know, and that’s not only them, but other countries.
But if you want to see a university system die, take a half a million people out of it. And, you know, the ones that won’t be heard are the top schools. The top schools will do fine, but your lower schools, your lower—the ones that don’t do quite as well—those two, they’ll be dying all over the place. I frankly think that it’s good that people come from other countries and they learn our culture, and many of them want to stay here. I think it’s a good thing. Not everybody agrees with me, and it doesn’t sound like a very conservative position.
And I’m as conservative—I’m a conservative guy. I’m really a common sense guy, I think, more than a conservative. I think MAGA is common sense. You know, people understand we want strong borders. We want a strong military. We want good education. We want low interest rates. Well, you know, we want—but, but—
“People would argue they worry about whether they have nefarious intentions,” pushed back Hannity.
“Sure, I know, and we worry about that, and honestly, you know, they do things to us, and we do things to them. It’s a very fine line, the whole thing with students. So they have 500,000 students. Our university system does great, you know, it does great. You want to screw it up, take a half a million students, and you’re gonna see bankruptcies at the lower end of good colleges—but they’re not known or whatever,” Trump continued, adding --->READ MORE HERE
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