On the recordApril 17, 2023
It is an honor to stand before you and lead this Special Order tonight. I have a message. That message is our Nation's higher education system is being purchased and manipulated by the Chinese Communist Party. America needs a wake-up call. I thought that wake-up call would come in the form of a Chinese spy balloon. If it was the Chinese spy balloon sent to wake us up, it seems that America has hit the snooze button. A few weeks ago, several members of the Education and the Workforce Committee were briefed on the scheme, the manipulation of the Chinese Communist Party on higher education in the USA, and we were all shocked. It was a shocking report, and we wanted to share the truth of how China is infiltrating and taking control over higher education in the United States. Since 2013, $12 billion has poured into our higher education system from foreign sources. China is by far the largest of foreign donations since that time. Between 2013 and 2020, U.S. universities accepted nearly a billion dollars from Chinese donations. The tuition paid by Chinese students is estimated to be over $12 billion per year. It is time we look at this influence and take it seriously. It started over 20 years ago, Mr. Speaker, that China has been playing this game of infiltration, manipulation, and trying to purchase influence. It started with this game they play that they call the Confucius Institutes.…
