Trump to Allow 600,000 Chinese Students Entry to U.S. for College
August 26th, 2025Via: New York Post:
President Trump said his administration will welcome more Chinese students than ever into the United States to enroll in higher education as trade talks press on with Beijing.
Trump announced Monday that he plans to open the floodgates to another 600,000 Chinese college students, though it’s unclear when. There are currently around 270,000 Chinese students enrolled in US universities.
That’ll be 600,000 American youth who won’t get the chance to earn a college degree anytime soon. This is landing the troops and putting them in position.
How can anything good be read into this?
“How can anything good be read into this?”
I don’t know, but just at a glance / making a wild guess:
Maybe it keeps universities open that would otherwise go under.
Why bother?
A huge amount of national security research happens at the universities that could/would go under without more students.
So, unironically, flood them with Chinese nationals, many of whom will be CCP members?
Like I said, just a guess.
Higher education has been a sort of pyramid scheme, but it’s coming to an end…
https://www.npr.org/2025/01/08/nx-s1-5246200/demographic-cliff-fewer-college-students-mean-fewer-graduates
A looming ‘demographic cliff’: Fewer college students and ultimately fewer graduates
As fresh data emerges, the outlook is getting only worse. An analysis by the higher education consulting firm Ruffalo Noel Levitz, using the latest available census figures, now projects another drop in the number of 18-year-olds beginning in 2033, after a brief uptick. By 2039, this estimate shows, there will likely be 650,000, or 15%, fewer of them per year than there are now.
These findings sync up with another new report, released in December by the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education (WICHE), which says that the number of 18-year-olds nationwide who graduate from high school each year — and are therefore candidates for college — will erode by 13%, or nearly half a million, by 2041.
“A few hundred thousand per year might not sound like a lot,” Strohl says. “But multiply that by a decade, and it has a big impact.”
Colleges see significant drop in international students as fall semester begins
https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5498669