Espionage 101: Don’t Enroll 600,000 Chinese Communist Party Spies at American Colleges
A key component of CCP plans to achieve military supremacy
By George Fishman on August 27, 2025
Emma Bussey recently reported for Fox News that “Donald Trump said 600,000 Chinese students would be allowed into the U.S. to study at colleges amid ongoing trade talks with China.” She noted that President Trump told reporters “I hear so many stories that we're not going to allow their students[.] We're going to allow their students to come in. It's very important, 600,000 students. It's very important.”
But there are already too many students from the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in the U.S. — 277,398 in the 2023/24 academic year, totaling fully one-quarter of the entire foreign student population, with over half studying in engineering, computer science, and other STEM fields. What is most troubling about the specter of a record-breaking 600,000 PRC students inundating our college campuses is that their presence here is a key component of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) and the People’s Liberation Army’s (PLA) plan to achieve military supremacy over the United States.
PRC President “Xi Jinping, has ... [made] clear that overseas Chinese students and scholars are key to his plans to transform China into an innovative and militarily formidable world power.”
I have written in the Washington Examiner that PRC “officials openly proclaim that armed conflict with the United States is inevitable and have been assiduously pursuing the goal of military superiority over the U.S. to be able to prevail over us in a war”. A staff report of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission (ESRC), established by Congress to review the national security implications of trade and economic ties between the U.S. and the PRC, concluded that PRC President “Xi Jinping, has ... [made] clear that overseas Chinese students and scholars are key to his plans to transform China into an innovative and militarily formidable world power.”
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