Trump admin to bring in 600,000 Chinese students to US schools
This will more than double the number of Chinese students studying in American universities.
President Donald Trump met with South Korean President Lee Jae Myung in the Oval Office on Monday and the two took questions from reporters on all things Pacific Rim, including the Sino-US relationship. Trump revealed that his administration intends to more than double the number of Chinese students studying in American universities.
“President Xi would like me to come to China,” Trump told reporters while sitting next to Lee, both flanked by multiple ministers. “It’s a very important relationship, as you know. We’re taking a lot of money from China because of the tariffs and different things and it’s a very important relationship. We’re going to get along good with China.” For Trump, Chinese student enrollment is part of trade talks.
“I hear so many stories about we’re not going to allow their students—we’re going to allow their students to come in,” Trump said reassuringly, “we’re going to allow—it’s very important, 600,000 students. It’s very important. But we’re going to get along with China.”
The Trump administration has been working to rid American colleges and universities of Marxism since taking office but now the plan is to increase from 270,000 the number of students who grew up and likely intend to return to communist China. This will represent 600,000 student visas from China alone, not considering additional nations’ foreign students.
Right now, there are 270,000 Chinese students studying at American universities—this plan would more than double that number. And it comes after Secretary of State Marco Rubio said he’d be scrutinizing Chinese student visas for connections to the CCP or for those working in sensitive areas of research.
Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick appeared on Laura Ingraham’s Fox show last night and was asked about it. “How is allowing 600,000 students from the communist country of China putting America first?” Ingraham asked.
“The president’s point of view,” Lutnick explained, “is that what would happen if you didn’t have those 600,000 students is that you’ve emptied them from the top, all the students would go up to better schools, and the bottom 15% of universities and colleges would go out of business in America. So his view is, he’s taking a rational economic view which is classic Donald Trump, looking at higher education, saying until we modify that—”
“That just helps Harvard and UCLA and UCal Berkeley and—y’all helping those schools, why?” Ingraham asked. T”hey’re like, you know, basically factories of anti-American propaganda. Now they’re getting a big influx of cash because of the Chinese students. I mean, I know, I know President Trump has always been very pro-Chinese student. I just don’t understand it, for the life of me. Those are 600,000 spots that American kids won’t get.”
There are about 7 million young American men who have essentially dropped out of work, school, and building a life. About 47% of American women have college degrees compared to 37% of men, and enrollment continues to favor women.
