Is There Really Chinese Spies in US College Universities? Great chat with @JMichaelWaller pic.twitter.com/d1ZZO134IJ
— Chris Stigall (@ChrisStigall) November 14, 2025
And what do they do with the students here? Even the students here who are just innocent students, if you have immediate family back in China you're at the mercy of the party. And the Chinese National Security law says that every Chinese National, meaning citizen of the People's Republic of China, must work with the Chinese security and intelligence services. So they're sending in potentially 600,000 spies a year to burrow into our research programs, our research and development institutions that are, you know, at our top technical colleges and universities and at the R&D institutions that spin off from those universities. So you have this . . . to bring in all these extra Chinese students unvetted means that we're bringing in a lot of spies who are going to be stealing our tech.
Big Intel: How the CIA and FBI Went from Cold War Heroes to Deep State Villains, J. Michael Waller, 2024.
