{"id":6157,"date":"2025-06-03T09:00:34","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T09:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burn-the-priest.com\/?p=6157"},"modified":"2025-06-03T11:46:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T11:46:13","slug":"president-trumps-visa-policy-thwarts-chinas-spy-network-on-college-campuses-and-in-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/burn-the-priest.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/03\/president-trumps-visa-policy-thwarts-chinas-spy-network-on-college-campuses-and-in-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"President Trump\u2019s visa policy thwarts China\u2019s spy network on college campuses \u2013 and in Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"

A suspected communist Chinese spy<\/a> got so close to Democratic Congressman Eric Swalwell in 2015 that the FBI had to step in to\u00a0shut down the threat.<\/p>\n

The Chinese communist\u00a0agent<\/a>\u00a0was a fundraising “bundler” for Swalwell\u2019s congressional re-election, had volunteered for numerous Democratic campaigns and facilitated intern assignments in Swalwell\u2019s office.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And it all started with a\u00a0student visa\u00a0to a\u00a0California university.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Fang Fang case exemplifies a disturbing pattern: Chinese communist spies gaining entry and access to policymakers through seemingly innocuous student visas to U.S. colleges and universities.\u00a0<\/p>\n

IS TRUMP RESCUING CHINA’S COMMUNISTS?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

It’s a stark reminder of the urgent need for President Donald Trump<\/a>‘s strong and decisive action to\u00a0aggressively revoke\u00a0visas of students linked to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).<\/p>\n

“Under President Trump\u2019s leadership, the U.S. State Department will work with the Department of Homeland Security to aggressively revoke visas for Chinese students, including those with connections to the Chinese Communist Party or studying in critical fields,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio<\/a>\u00a0announced on Wednesday. “We will also revise visa criteria to enhance scrutiny of all future visa applications from the People\u2019s Republic of China and Hong Kong.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

The new visa policy is long overdue. Beijing thinks in centuries, patiently deploying operatives as students for a payoff years later. In July 2020, FBI Director Chris Wray\u00a0warned, “China \u2013 the Chinese Communist Party \u2013 believes it is in a generational fight to surpass our country in economic and technological leadership.”<\/p>\n

The Swalwell spy affair<\/a> isn’t an isolated incident. “She was just one of lots of agents,” a senior U.S. intelligence official said when news of the Swalwell case broke. At that time, the FBI maintained roughly 2,500 active FBI counterintelligence cases related to China.<\/p>\n

THE REAL BREAKTHROUGH IN U.S.\u2013CHINA TRADE TALKS IS MUCH BIGGER THAN JUST TARIFFS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Chinese communist espionage starts on college campuses, where connections are formed with aspiring political leaders. Fang Fang’s path,\u00a0according to the FBI, was a textbook example: enrollment at California State University, East Bay, followed by active participation in student political organizations, even leading campus chapters of the Chinese Student Association and the Asian Pacific Islander American Public Affairs.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Chinese Embassy and consulate officials\u00a0have helped facilitate 124 chapters\u00a0of Chinese students and scholars associations. It\u2019s through those very campus organizations<\/a> that the Chinese spy first made contact with Swalwell and other Democratic politicians.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

“CSSAs often attempt to conceal or obscure their ties to the Chinese government, frequently omitting incriminating language from the English-language versions of their websites\u2014the ones typically reviewed by university administrators,” the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission\u00a0concluded in 2018.<\/p>\n

In addition to student associations, China has\u00a0established\u00a0joint-venture education programs and institutions in the United States.\u00a0For years, China built an extensive network of Confucius Institutes on college and university campuses in the United States.\u00a0<\/p>\n

WHY US MUST ASSERT INDUSTRIAL DOMINANCE IN LIGHT OF CHINA-EUROPE TIES<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Marketed as language learning and cultural programs, the Confucius Institutes acted as a vehicle for Chinese government influence in the United States. Confucius Institute staff were forced to\u00a0pledge loyalty\u00a0to protect Chinese national interests.\u00a0<\/p>\n

After Congress\u00a0restricted federal funding\u00a0to schools with institutes, the institutes have almost all closed, according to the\u00a0U.S. Government Accountability Office.\u00a0Closed but the espionage continues.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, a\u00a0bombshell report\u00a0out of Stanford University<\/a> exposed a sophisticated CCP intelligence operation targeting Stanford students, particularly those in sensitive fields like AI and robotics.\u00a0<\/p>\n

U.S. colleges and universities aren\u2019t just a “soft target” for Chinese Communist espionage. They are, in many cases, compromised institutions.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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As of\u00a0February 2025, U.S. colleges and universities reported more than $4 billion in foreign funding from China. That\u2019s only the disclosed money. Over the past decade, as much as\u00a0$60 billion in foreign funds\u00a0have been funneled into American colleges and universities.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In 2023, I served on the Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, which\u00a0warned\u00a0about the CCP gaining access to research at UC Berkeley through its Tsinghua-Berkeley Shenzhen Institute The Biden administration ignored our concerns that the Chinese government could gain access to sensitive economic, technological and military research.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Thankfully, the Trump administration\u00a0launched an investigation\u00a0into UC Berkeley this spring for failing to report $220 million in foreign funds from the Chinese government related to Berkeley\u2019s PRC-backed collaboration with Tsinghua University.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

After four years of willful ignorance \u2013 or gross incompetence \u2013 under the Biden administration, President Trump has wasted no time in directing his administration to take the decisive, necessary action to finally thwart the pervasive and growing threat of Chinese communist espionage on U.S. college campuses.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The president\u2019s new visa policy is a critical step in securing America\u2019s national security<\/a>.<\/p>\n

CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM FORMER REP. MICHELLE STEEL<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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