{"id":22494,"date":"2020-02-10T17:00:34","date_gmt":"2020-02-10T22:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/?p=22494"},"modified":"2020-02-11T16:24:48","modified_gmt":"2020-02-11T21:24:48","slug":"china-national-security-visa-bans-immigrationreform-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2020\/02\/10\/china-national-security-visa-bans-immigrationreform-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Justice Department Indicts Chinese Military Officers in Massive Data Breach. So Why Isn\u2019t China Facing a Visa Ban?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On Monday, U.S. Attorney General William Barr, surrounded by a phalanx of top Justice Department (DOJ) lawyers, announced the indictment of four Chinese military officers<\/a> for their role in the massive 2017 breach of sensitive personal data stored in the computers of the credit reporting company, Equifax. If you have a mortgage, or have taken out any kind of bank loan, you are probably one of the 150 million Americans whose data was compromised.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Equifax data heist was not an isolated incident of Chinese government sanctioned spying \u2013 if you can even call the pilfering of 150 million Americans\u2019 personal information an isolated<\/em> incident. It is part of an ongoing strategy on the part of Chinese government to sop up as much information, trade secrets, and intellectual property as they can on the cheap. And, as Jennifer G. Hickey wrote in a blog<\/a> on this site last month, the Chinese military is no stranger to these efforts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chinese government efforts to plunder personal, intellectual,\nand strategic information is, of course, not limited to active members of the\ncommunist regime\u2019s military. There are an estimated 360,000 Chinese nationals\nstudying at American universities, or working for vital American companies\nunder the Optional Practical Training (OPT) program which tacks on a few extra\nyears of on-the-job training for foreign nationals with student visas. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In most cases, the cost of a rather pricey education at an\nAmericana university is picked up by the Chinese government. You can be sure\nthat they\u2019re not doing it out of the goodness of their communist hearts. They\nexpect something in return, and they\u2019re not all that particular about whether\nthe know-how brought back by Chinese nationals studying in the U.S. is honestly\nearned, or stolen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Which brings us to the $64,000 question: Why isn\u2019t China on the newly expanded list<\/a> of countries that are subject to severe restrictions on visa issuance? In fact, why wasn\u2019t China at the top of that list? Sure, China isn\u2019t Eritrea, and clamping down of visa issuance to the world\u2019s most populous nation and the world\u2019s second largest economy carries enormous geo-political and economic implications. But at the same time, can we afford the risks associated with allowing citizens of a country that has been waging economic war against us for decades nearly unfettered access to the places where vital research and innovation occurs?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We weren\u2019t giving student visas to German and Japanese nationals during World War II, although sending spies posing as students to the U.S. was an important part of Stalin\u2019s catch-up program<\/a>. We don\u2019t need to make the same mistakes twice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting,\u201d wrote Sun Tzu<\/a>, in The Art of War<\/em>. The 21st<\/sup> century leaders of China are still using that 2,500-year-old playbook with great effectiveness. Maybe it\u2019s time someone in Washington studied it as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Monday, U.S. Attorney General William Barr, surrounded by a phalanx of top Justice Department (DOJ) lawyers, announced the indictment of four Chinese military officers for their role in the massive 2017 breach of sensitive personal data stored in the computers of the credit reporting company, Equifax. If you have a mortgage, or have taken<\/p>\n

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