The Prophet Isaiah condemned King Hezekiah for gullibly granting access to both his treasury and armory to his adversaries (2 Kings 20:12-18). By doing so, the credulous Hezekiah assured future conflict with the Babylonians and their eventual conquest of Judah. Likewise, our gullible government is granting our adversaries access to our treasury and armory; and by doing so, is assuring our future conflict with our adversaries, as well as their potential conquest of us.

Along with the story of Hezekiah’s naivety, the Bible also teaches us that the love of money is the root of all evil (1 Timothy 6:10). At first glance this may appear to be exaggeration, even the height of hyperbole, but since Scripture is the divinely inspired, inerrant, and infallible Word of God, we may be assured that such is not the case. The truth is; all evil is perpetrated under the pretense of it producing for us, in some way or another, personal profit. 

Armed with the tragic Biblical tale of the over-trustful Hezekiah, as well as with the shocking scriptural statement that evil is always traceable to the pursuit of some kind of personal profit, let’s ask ourselves why there is such a preponderance of foreign pupils at American colleges and universities. While it is common to find foreign students comprising about 25% of most college campuses in America, many schools have even higher percentages, some, such as Illinois Tech, even have a majority of foreigners on campus. Now, the simple explanation for this phenomenon is the love of money, pure and simple. Foreign students pay more, since they can afford it, being the offspring of Middle Eastern oil barons, Chinese millionaires, Indian tech moguls, or European aristocrats. All told, American colleges and universities are currently raking in around $44 billion annually from 1.1 million foreign enrollees. 

Of the 1.1 million foreign students on American college campuses, more than 227,000 are from Red China. In 2017, the People’s Republican of China passed the National Intelligence Law. This law requires all Chinese citizens to support the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), no matter where they are or what they are doing. All Chinese citizens are required by this law to serve as spies for the CCP, by collecting intelligence, regardless of their location. This means that the so-called Chinese Ministry of State Security can not only arrest any Chinese student in America who fails to double as a Chinese spy in America, but also threaten the student’s family back home behind the Great Wall in the land of the Red Dragon.

With the above in mind, consider the story of Yunqing Jian and her boyfriend Zunyong Liu. These two Chinese citizens were recently arrested in our country for bioterrorism. Jian, a post-doctoral research fellow at the University of Michigan, and Liu, a researcher at China’s Zhejiang University, tried to smuggle into our country an “agroterrorism weapon,” a toxic crop-killing pathogen that could have potentially spread blight across America’s fruited plain. Just a few days later, another Chinese citizen, Chengxuan Han, a PhD student at the Huazhong University of Science and Technology in Wuhan, who was conducting research at a University of Michigan laboratory, was arrested for smuggling biological material into our country related to round worms. Unfortunately, these recent arrests are nothing new. For instance, in 2020, two Chinese graduate students at the University of Michigan pleaded guilty to breaching a Naval air station in Key West, Florida, where they were caught illegally entering and photographing defense infrastructure. In 2021, Harvard professor, Charles Lieber, was not only convicted of lying about his work with China's Wuhan University of Technology, but also for concealing his contract with China's Thousand Talents Program, which steals American technology to advance China’s national, military, and economic goals.  

Is there any wonder, in light of the above, that Secretary of State Marco Rubio has announced that the Trump Administration is going to start aggressively revoking Chinese student visas? Gordon Chang, an American attorney and expert on China, has gone further than Rubio, however, by calling upon the Trump Administration to completely sever its relationship with China. According to Chang, this is the only way to stop the communist Chinese’s continuing covert infiltrations of our country. While many may dismiss Chang as a radical and his suggestion as ridiculous, I find him to be rational and his suggestion most reasonable, especially in light of China’s unleashing of the COVID-19 pandemic on our world, which killed more than a million Americans, and their incontrovertible culpability in the 100,000 annual casualties to fentanyl poisoning in our country. Yet, one of yesterday’s lead news stories was that our “King Hezekiah,” I mean our President, Donald Trump, has just successfully negotiated the framework of a new trade deal with China, which allows the continuing infiltration of our country by Chinese spies; that is, hundreds of thousands of Chinese students, in exchange for rare earth minerals, which China has cornered the world market on.