"The Invisible Coup" author @PeterSchweizer detailed how China is using the U.S. student visa program to extract sensitive national security information during our Fight Club Founders' Roundtable. pic.twitter.com/Ss82fbZvYE
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Now if you're a student from China in the United States, you are expected to have and communicate the only app that you were supposed to have on your phone for communication is WeChat and the government monitors that. So they know what you're saying, they know what you're communicating. They also know who your families are back home. So even if you have no interest in damaging the United States, no interest in stealing secrets, if you were working in a sensitive Lab at Yale or Brigham Young or UCLA, and government wants you to steal on their behalf, they will pressure you. They will say that your family is at risk, and you will be forced to comply. Those are just the realities that exist for students, and to pretend that that reality does not exist and to pretend that this is not a problem caused by the Chinese government, I think it's just being naive.
So how do you deal with that? You're not going to be able to get the Chinese government not to pressure students. You're not going to be able to get them to study comparative lit instead of chemical engineering. So I think you have to look at curtailing the numbers because they are stealing us blind.
