Hi everyone!
Two things caught my interest today, and both of them came straight from the Oval Office. Trump met with the president of South Korea in the White House and the two discussed all things Pacific Rim, including the Sino-US relationship, which includes a great deal of Chinese students studying in American schools.
"President Xi would like me to come to China," Trump told reporters while sitting next to President Lee Jae Myung, both flanked by multiple ministers. "It's a very important relationship, as you know. We're taking a lot of money from China because of the tariffs and different things and it's a very important relationship. We're going to get along well with China.
"I hear so many stories about we're not going to allow their students—we're going to allow their students to come in," Trump said reassuringly, "we're going to allow—it's very important, 600,000 students. It's very important. But we're going to get along with China."
So just as the Trump administration is working to rid our finest and oldest schools of the scourge of Marxism he's allowing in 600,000 students who have grown up in communist China, who will likely return to that nation and further their home country's goals and not American goals. In recent years, those students haven't brought home values of democracy and freedom as much as they have brought collectivist communist ideas to American students.
That's 600,000 student visas from one country alone, and instead of thinking of it culturally Trump is thinking of it as a tool for trade. Right now, there are 270,000 Chinese students studying at American universities—this plan would more than double that number. And it comes after Secretary of State Marco Rubio said he'd be scrutinizing Chinese student visas for connections to the CCP or for those working in sensitive areas of research.
So what is the response to criticism? Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick appeared on Laura Ingraham's Fox show last night and was asked about it. "How is allowing 600,000 students from the communist country of China putting America first?" Ingraham asked.
"The president's point of view," Lutnick explained, "is that what would happen if you didn't have those 600,000 students is that you've emptied them from the top, all the students would go up to better schools, and the bottom 15% of universities and colleges would go out of business in America. So his view is, he's taking a rational economic view which is classic Donald Trump, looking at higher education, saying until we modify that—"
Ingraham asked the question that we all asked while watching this, having paid attention to what's going on in education over the past several years, seeing the idiocy turned out in the name of university education.
"That just helps Harvard and UCLA and UCal Berkeley and—y'all helping those schools, why? They're like, you know, basically factories of anti-American propaganda. Now they're getting a big influx of cash because of the Chinese students. I mean, I know, I know President Trump has always been very pro-Chinese student. I just don't understand it, for the life of me. Those are 600,000 spots that American kids won't get."
And that's the question. When we look out at our societal landscape and see our young men unemployed, not in school, not even trying to be part of life, to make life, and now we're giving away these spaces in schools to people who will not benefit our country, who will not create greatness in America, whose time will expire after four years—even considering some of them will get jobs and stay—what are we doing for our young people and for our nation's future by giving away this resource?
I'm with Laura, I don't get it. The other thing I don't quite get from the Oval yesterday is the EO banning flag burning. As I talked about with Jack Posobiec yesterday on Human Events Daily, this could be an effort by the administration to bring the issue back in front of the Supreme Court. There is a project afoot to not only dismantle the past 25 years of incessant wokeness but everything that led up to it in the 30-ish years before, going back to the late 1960s. Yes to getting Marxism out of schools, yes to going back to biological reality, yes to putting Americans first, yes to border security. But yes to stricter laws on speech? Religion? Press? I'm not so sure about that one, not at all.