freebeacon.com By Jennifer Richmond
President Donald Trump’s surprise announcement in August that he’ll allow 600,000 Chinese students to attend U.S. universities—a major reversal in policy—is the latest example of how China’s influence operation in American higher education is shifting and adapting rather than receding. The controversial Confucius Institutes, Chinese government beachheads on American college and university campuses, may have largely shut down under U.S. government pressure, but the partnerships have quietly reemerged with new names and the same goals.
Asked about the Chinese student visas last month, Trump defended his reversal—allowing 600,000 Chinese students would more than double the population of Chinese students now studying in the United States—as a smart “business” move.
“It’s not that I want them, but I view it as a business,” he told Laura Ingraham of Fox News after she pressed him on China’s bad behavior, such as spying and stealing American technology. “One thing you don’t want—to cut half of the people, half of the students from all over the world that are coming into our country, destroy our entire university and college system. I don’t want to do that…
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