Do
we have a responsibility to shell out some $8 billion per year in taxpayer
money to educate over 60,000 communist Chinese students in American
universities? That is, the very students who return to China to take
jobs, factories and even entire industries away from American workers?
Apparently
so, according to the U.S. State Department division that panders to
wannabe Chinese students.
In
a 2005 speech given by Donald Bishop, attached to the U.S. Embassy in
Beijing, China, Bishop eagerly told prospective students how to game
the American educational system for an essentially free education at
taxpayer expense. He told them how to secure student visas, which programs
to apply for, and how to get additional money to maintain themselves
while in the United States.
Each
year, over 20,000 new communist Chinese students join the other 40,000
students already present at American universities. Eighty-two percent
(almost 50,000) of these are graduate students in mathematics, sciences
and engineering. Those students who get Teaching or Research Assistant
jobs find that tuitions are further reduced, in some cases to zero.
Such opportunities are not available to undergrads.
At
public institutions in the United States, According to Bishop,
“…
a student receives a dollar's worth of education for perhaps twenty-five
cents. The university's other costs are supported by the taxpayers,
which means the farmers and factory workers and business people of one
of the fifty states.”
At
private universities, half of the tuition is subsidized by endowments
and foundations.
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Bishop
summed up the financial angle by stating,
“Another
way to look at this is that every student admitted to an American university
receives an (unstated) scholarship, or perhaps a subsidy, from American
society. Every state debates the amount of money allocated for higher
education each year. Every state wants to keep education fees low to
benefit its own low-income students. But every year, states agree to
use tens or hundreds of millions of dollars to subsidize the students
that come from foreign nations. These billions of dollars demonstrate
a true American commitment to diversity and international understanding.”
Do
Americans know about this “true American commitment” to
educate communists on how to make nooses from our own rope to hang us
with?
Have
we forgotten that between 1949-1975, the People’s Republic of
China (PRC) murdered an estimated 45-50 million of its own citizens?
The PRC is still pounding on Tibet, where some 600,000 have died since
1950.
Have
we forgotten that persecution of Christians is legendary in China? Even
as China prepares to host the 2008 Summer Olympic games, they have forbidden
foreign athletes to publically or privately share their Christian faith
with Chinese citizens. Even after the current earthquake that killed
at least 34,000 people, the PRC ordered a new crackdown on underground
house churches that might have otherwise been a great source of relief
to refugees of that terrible disaster.
Have
we forgotten that the PRC ruthlessly enforces a policy of forced abortion
for women who would seek to have more than one child? Untold millions
of young women have been violated under this brutal policy.
Have
we forgotten that China is the number one source of cyber-warfare against
the United States in recent years? Just one year ago, the Department
of Defense publically admitted that "The PLA (People’s Liberation
Army) has established information warfare units to develop viruses to
attack enemy computer systems and networks."
Perhaps
Mr. Bishop of the State Department doesn’t remember such things.
However, a more likely scenario is that he does remember and yet chooses
to ignore them, to our own expense and peril.
That
would mean, of course, that Bishop violated his oath of employment:
“I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States
against all enemies, foreign and domestic and I will bear true faith
and allegiance to the same.”
In
all fairness to Mr. Bishop, we should acknowledge that he is acting
in accordance with official State Department policies, under the leadership
of the Administration of George W. Bush.
The
global elite who opened up China to foreign investment and manufacturing
in the early 1970’s are the very same people who are backing Chinese
education in America today. After all, why should the elite spend their
own money to educate their Chinese workforce when bundles of taxpayer
money will do it for them?
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Personally,
this writer wants no part of China or the Chinese political system,
and neither should you.
In
the meantime, we owe them absolutely nothing and especially not a free
education at taxpayer expense.
Patrick
M. Wood is editor of The August
Review, which builds on his original research with the late Dr. Antony
C. Sutton, who was formerly a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution
for War, Peace and Revolution at Stanford University. Their 1977-1982
newsletter, Trilateral Observer, was the original authoritative critique
on the New International Economic Order spearheaded by members of the
Trilateral Commission.
Their highly regarded
two-volume book, Trilaterals Over Washington, became a standard reference
on global elitism. Wood's ongoing work is to build a knowledge center
that provides a comprehensive and scholarly source of information on globalism
in all its related forms: political, economic and religious.
