Michael Pillsbury is an expert on China. In a recent Forbes article citing his work, this is
what the author, John Mauldin had to say. “In his book, The Hundred-Year Marathon,
Michael Pillsbury marshals a lot of evidence showing the Chinese government has a
detailed strategy to overtake the US as the world’s dominant power. They want to do this
by 2049, the centennial of China’s Communist revolution. The strategy has been well
documented in Chinese literature, published and sanctioned by organizations of the
People’s Liberation Army, for well over 50 years.”

If you think this hyperbolic, consider the following:

Approximately 290,000 Chinese nationals attended American colleges and universities
last year. Because Chinese nationals live in a totalitarian state, every student here in the
US is a potential spy for the Communist Chinese Party, (CCP.) Cyber-security company
Cybereason reports that “trillions” of dollars in data have been stolen (hacked) from some
30 multinational corporations over the past several years. The FBI estimates US
corporate loses from theft and espionage from China at between 225 and 600 billions
dollars annually.

China is clearly not only an adversary, but our largest and most dangerous threat. In a speech in April, FBI Director Christopher Wray said, “There is no doubt that the greatest long-term threat to our nation’s ideas, our economic security and our national security is that posed by the Chinese communist government.”

China is the largest surveillance state in the world. IHSMarket estimates that China has
approximately 226 million Closed-Circuit Television, (CCTV) cameras in public places.
Chinese people are “graded” by the Chinese Communist Party, (CCP) in terms of their
“social credits” by monitoring and then critiquing their behaviors. This in turn earns
them negative consequences if their behaviors are reportedly “bad”, like driving too fast
or smoking in public areas then limits ones ability to travel, lowers their credit score or
slows their internet speeds.

Between 2009 and 2018, China’s military, the People’s Liberation Army, (PLA)
spending rose 83%, the largest increase of any developed country in the world. The
Chinese military has over 2-million soldiers and sailors with half-a-million in reserve.
Comparatively, the US military manpower count is approximately 1.3 million. China
has approximately 340 warships to 300 for the USA.

Quoting from the Council on Foreign Relations, (CFR ) article, “according to reports
filed to the Justice Department under the U.S. Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA),
China has spent more over the past six years—$280 million—to influence U.S.
politics… Again, in the words of the CFR article, “A report by the Hoover Institution,
a U.S.-based policy institute, found that Beijing or its proxies, such as pro-China business
people, now control nearly all of the Chinese-language media in the United States. This
allows the Chinese government to feed its propaganda to millions of people, potentially
influencing how they vote; many of these readers and viewers live in highly competitive
congressional districts in California, New York, and other states. The report also said that
Beijing is gaining control of U.S. university associations for students of Chinese heritage
and using those to try to shape campus and political discourse.”

China’s Belt and Road Initiative, (BRI) is designed to dominated the worlds demands for consumer goods,
commerce and the establishment of Chinese currency as the global default.

Does this look like sound planning? According to the U.S. Department of Commerce,
China now accounts for 95 percent of imports of ibuprofen, 91 percent of imports of
hydrocortisone, 70 percent of imports of acetaminophen, 40 to 45 percent of imports of
penicillin, and 40 percent of imports of heparin.

The CCP has also established “police stations” throughout the world, including here in
the US. According to an article in The Hill, “According to one assessment, at least 102
known or suspected Chinese overseas police stations are currently active in 53 countries.
The real number is undoubtedly higher. In the U.S., stations have been identified in New
York City, Los Angeles, Houston and San Francisco, as well as smaller cities in
Nebraska and Minnesota.

And most recently, we all remember the infamous Chinese spy balloon finally shot down
over the Carolina coast. This is what the Wall Street Journal had to say about this. “…
Analysis found the balloon was crammed with commercially available U.S. gear, some of
it for sale online, and interspersed with more specialized Chinese sensors and other
equipment to collect photos, video and other information to transmit to China, officials
said. Those findings, they said, support a conclusion that the craft was intended for
spying…”

China also owns some 384,000 acres of US land, some of which is alarmingly close to
sensitive US military installations throughout the country.xiv China owns some $859
billion of US debt. According to an April article in Reuters, Jared Bernstein, a member
of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, told a Senate Banking Committee
hearing there was “some evidence” that China wants the dollar to weaken as the
international reserve currency.

And finally, consider that China is the foremost producer and exporter of fentanyl to the
US. This is what the US Justice Department said in June of this year. “The Justice
Department today announced the arrest of two individuals and the unsealing of three
indictments in the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York charging China-based
companies and their employees with crimes related to fentanyl production, distribution,
and sales resulting from precursor chemicals.”

With all of this knowledge and solid evidence demonstrating the malicious intent of the
CCP, why do we continue to allow Chinese nationals access to our universities, or allow
them access to our country at all? In the interest of national security, American
sovereignty and the preservation and furtherance of American ideals, Chinese nationals
should have no access to the US or our universities.

The CCP is at war with us and Chinese citizens are subservient to their dictatorial
government. It’s about time we defended ourselves.