{"id":25189,"date":"2021-11-03T11:55:23","date_gmt":"2021-11-03T15:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/?p=25189"},"modified":"2021-11-03T12:00:27","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T16:00:27","slug":"universities-love-chinese-students-immigrationreform-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2021\/11\/03\/universities-love-chinese-students-immigrationreform-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Universities Want More Chinese \u2013 Not American \u2013 Students"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Wall Street Journal <\/em>reported<\/a> that major American universities are complaining about the lack of Chinese students currently enrolled in the United States. The universities complain that \u201cdominance in science and technology could be undermined by toughened U.S. visa requirements that are squeezing the flow of talent from China,\u201d our chief geopolitical adversary. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The universities continue to protest a presidential proclamation <\/a>from then-President Donald Trump. That proclamation barred the entry of Chinese researchers and students who had ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) or the People\u2019s Liberation Army (PLA). This was a common-sense decision to prevent American technology, innovation, and industry intelligence from falling into the hands of China. Chinese students and researchers have a well-documented history<\/a> of stealing American industrial secrets and intellectual technology. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is no doubt that foreign students do contribute to\nimportant gains in research within science, technology, engineering, and math\n(STEM) fields. But it is also true that universities over-enroll foreign\nstudents because they pay full tuition and do not qualify for need or\nmerit-based scholarships in most circumstances. Universities have a financial\nincentive to enroll as many foreign students as possible. Chinese students are\nno more capable of conducting STEM research than are students from other\ncountries, including our own allies. Students from Europe, Oceania, and India\nenroll in American universities every year. Are Chinese students somehow better\nthan these other foreign students? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This begs the question of whether we need Chinese foreign students in our universities at all. In April<\/a>, I posed this same question: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic\nabout one third of all foreign students in the United States were Chinese.\nThink about the national security implications of that fact. The United States\n\u2013 through our world-class universities<\/a> \u2013 is happily educating\nnationals from our greatest rival on the world stage. In extreme cases<\/a>, some of those students become\nAmerican citizens and then subsequently spy on the U.S. for the Chinese\nCommunist Party. But in many others, these students return home to China with\nAmerican degrees to work in China for either the Chinese government or for any\none of China\u2019s CCP-aligned firms. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

How on earth is this in our national interest? Even if you agree with the notion that we should maintain or even increase the number of foreign student visas, why would we allocate such a great proportion of those visas to citizens of a country that views us as a rival, targets<\/a> our elections, steals<\/a> American intellectual property, hacks<\/a> our government systems, and openly attacks<\/a> the notion of Western democracy as a whole? <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The answer is simple. We do not need <\/em>Chinese foreign\nstudents. It is disturbing that American universities now protest current\nregulations on Chinese students affiliated with the CCP and PLA. From a\nnational security perspective, our universities should not educate individuals\nwho will be plotting against us in the future. From an economic perspective, it\nmakes no sense to educate people who will return home after their studies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

From a cultural sense, what does it say about American universities and our broader education system that our universities are up in arms over this issue without making a meaningful attempt to bring more American students into STEM roles? Spare me the reply that Americans do not pursue STEM degrees \u2013 it is not true. Data from the National Science Foundation found that almost 40 percent<\/a> of all incoming freshman major in STEM degrees, a trend that is increasing <\/em>rather than decreasing. Our country is heading in the right direction with STEM education. Let\u2019s not derail that progress by arming our number one global adversary by educating their students. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let China educate its own, and let America educate ours. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Wall Street Journal reported that major American universities are complaining about the lack of Chinese students currently enrolled in the United States. The universities complain that \u201cdominance in science and technology could be undermined by toughened U.S. visa requirements that are squeezing the flow of talent from China,\u201d our chief geopolitical adversary. The universities<\/p>\n

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