[BretLudwig]

((Usual disclaimer yada yada yada. I'm pro-abortion to the extent that it's
eugenic,and have no desire to meddle in strictly internal Chinese affairs.
Bret.))

Educating the enemy


Patrick Wood



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.

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 is available for the taking?

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 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. Wood is also
executive director of World Research Library, publisher of The August
Review.


http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/wood/080606

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