America faces a massive national security crisis that nobody wants to talk about. Chinese spies are walking freely through our college campuses every single day. They are stealing our most important research and sending it straight back to Beijing.
The numbers are shocking and scary. Over 60 cases of Chinese Communist Party espionage have been documented in just the last four years across 20 different states. These are not isolated incidents – this is a coordinated attack on America. Our enemies are using our own openness against us.
Chinese students at top universities like Stanford, Carnegie Mellon, and Purdue are not here just to learn. Many are here to steal our military secrets and advanced technology. The FBI has warned that every Chinese student who comes here must go through Communist Party approval first. None of them are free from Chinese government control.
Our universities have become sitting ducks for Chinese intelligence operations. Professors and researchers are handing over sensitive information without even knowing it. The academic world is too trusting and too naive to see what is really happening right under their noses.
Congressional investigators are now demanding answers from six major universities about their Chinese students in science and technology programs. They know these schools have become breeding grounds for espionage. American taxpayers are funding research that ends up helping China build better weapons to use against us.
The Chinese government has turned student visas into weapons of war. They send their people here to access our most classified research and steal our intellectual property. This is not education – this is economic and military warfare disguised as learning.
FBI Director Christopher Wray has made it clear that Chinese intelligence collectors are targeting our universities more than ever before. They know this is where America’s best ideas are born. While we welcome students with open arms, China sees this as their chance to rob us blind.
Every day we allow this to continue, we are giving China the tools they need to defeat us. Real patriots must demand action now before it is too late. Our national security depends on stopping this invasion of spies disguised as students.