Tuesday, May 5, 2020

Tom Cotton Is Right About Restricting Chinese Student Visas

  1. …trained so many of the Chinese Communist Party's brightest minds to go back to China to compete for our jobs, to take our business, and ultimately to steal our property and design weapons and other devices that can be used against the American people…I think we need to take a very hard look at the visas that we give the Chinese nationals to come to the United States to study, especially at the post-graduate level in advanced scientific and technological fields.
  2. while the vast majority of students and researchers from China are in the United States for legitimate academic reasons…the Chinese government uses some Chinese students—mostly post-graduate students and post-doctorate researchers studying science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)—and professors to operate as non-traditional collectors of intellectual property.
  3. While it would be ideal if Chinese nationals came to America, fell in love with our founding principles, and spread them to their countrymen, these hopes must be weighed against the reality of China’s repression and censorship, the leverage its regime holds over nationals studying abroad, and its other menacing influence efforts on campuses.
  4. This includes the Thousand Talents Program, one of more than 200 such recruitment programs the Communist Chinese regime uses to incentivize people to export valuable research and development fruits to China.


https://thefederalist.com/2020/05/05/tom-cotton-is-right-about-restricting-chinese-student-visas/

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