Chinese University Espionage and How Biden Shut Down the Program That Might Have Stopped It
President Biden allowed hundreds of thousands of Chinese students to enter the United States despite the documented espionage threat, while simultaneously terminating President Trump’s China Initiative counterespionage program. Chinese enrollment in U.S. higher education grew steadily through the Obama years, climbing from under 200,000 in 2011–12 to a peak of 372,532 by 2019–20. By March 2018, alongside that growth, the FBI warned in its bulletin,