It’s common knowledge that Red China has been ripping off America’s technical secrets for years, with little response from the US. The internet makes intellectual theft even easier via hacking, but the hands-on version of espionage continues, enhanced by open-doors immigration which has brought thousands of unfriendly Chinese spies to these shores.
On Wednesday, Fox News host Steve Doocy interviewed national security analyst Morgan Ortagus about the danger:
Doocy observed that the Chinese find it easier to steal American ideas than to invent stuff on their own.
Ortagus responded, “They are also using human spies to do this. . . They do it via hacking and also via using human spies.”
That means a cadre of Chinese nationals, who may arrive here as college students and advance to employment in tech industries, are stealing valuable secrets for their homeland because they are here and able to do so.
The number of Chinese students has skyrocketed to more than 350,000 now attending American colleges and universities, a situation that benefits no one except institutions of higher education that covet the full tuition that foreign learners pay.
Chinese Students Studying in American Colleges
But colleges are clueless about the threat to business and national secrets from Chinese student spies, something about which FBI Director Christopher Wray warned in a Senate intelligence hearing last February. “I think the level of naiveté on the part of the academic sector about this creates its own issues,” he said. “[The Chinese are] exploiting the very open research and development environment that we have, which we all revere. But they’re taking advantage of it.”
Why does the practice of welcoming spies continue when it is clearly a danger to American national security? The college pipeline is the royal road for Red China espionage, but nobody in Washington can speak the obvious solution: end all Chinese student visas — which would protect US secrets and also open up thousands of competitive college slots for American students.
Win, win.
