President Trump, unfortunately, is refusing to back away from his preposterous proposal to increase the number of Chinese college students in the U.S., now totaling 300,000, to 600,000 over the next two years. He claims that if this doesn’t happen “half the colleges in the United States” will go out of business.
That sounds like self-serving propaganda from the higher education lobby. A number of colleges and universities do face financial problems. A big reason is that they are top-heavy with administrative staff, often brought on board to administer and promote Woke policies. Doing away with those policies could make them more solvent, as well as making them more attractive to many American students.
One thing for sure is that such an influx of Chinese students will reduce educational opportunities for Americans. Also, it will increase China’s opportunities for espionage and the theft of intellectual property. As Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis observed, “There is a significant percentage of the Chinese students who are engaged by the Communist Party of China.”
Fox News host Laura Ingram told Trump during an interview that “a lot of MAGA folks are not thrilled” with this plan. Trump replied, “I know what MAGA wants better than anybody else.” No you don’t, Donald, at least not in this case.
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