600,000 Chinese University Students?

President Trump just announced he is allowing 600,000 Chinese university students into the country. Is this America First? Does this make sense? 

It does…when you consider, we are in a total asymmetrical war with China and we are in the disadvantaged position.

 

Trump and his Fox News stand-in Sec. Howard Lutnick do not want to say out loud that the Chinese have the cards in this negotiation because they control 95% of global rare earths and industrial magnets. After 45 years of globalist offshoring policies, we have little domestic manufacturing and mining left. We can't increase our artillery manufacturing capability at all, even by throwing a trillion dollars at the problem. We also can't build ships anymore. We've forgotten how, and we don't have shipyards capable of making the big tanker, cargo and military vessels. Nor do we have the rare earths for steelmaking. Those fabrication plants, steel mills, and shipyards are in China, Vietnam, Singapore and India. 

In short, the Chinese can crash our economy in a couple of weeks if we don't let them have exactly what they want, such as: more than double the college admissions; cash purchase of arable land; ownership stakes in essential businesses such as agriculture; and ownership of commercial and residential real estate properties. 

The Chinese actually did come close to crashing our economy earlier this year, when Trump unwisely raised tariffs on the Chinese to 145% and they raised their tariffs right back. He obviously didn't know that we are dependent on the Chinese for almost everything relating to technology,  food and materials. Trump lied to save face when he said the Chinese lowered their tariffs first; that's not true. He called them and told them he was ratcheting it down. Retailers were telling him that week that they only had 2 weeks of some products on the shelves, and if we didn't get more Chinese shipments immediately, there would be visible shortages. 

Chinese "students" are made to sign agreements before they come here that they will act in the interest of the CCP while on US soil. They are closely monitored by Chinese "police stations" (CCP outposts) which have been documented in major cities such as New York and Los Angeles. They steal IP, and have for many years, which allowed the quick development of the Chinese "market" economy in the 90s and 2000s.

Chinese migrants and research "students" have also been documented flying in and out of the United States with hidden illicit drugs and other controlled substances such as biologics. Some of this has been weaponized inside the US, like citrus greening, Asian carp, and of course C19. 

Some say it makes no sense that Trump is going to raise the limit from 271,000 to 600,000 Chinese students, at the obvious expense of American students. Make no sense? In fact it makes perfect sense. Trump and the US economy are entirely dependent on China. He has no cards and he doesn't want to say that in public. 

The Chinese want to send in a young labor force that we will train and which will replace us. Meanwhile, this cohort is stealing intellectual property and bringing in banned biologics, while buying real estate for cash and using our legal framework to their benefit.

Consider also that, while these Chinese students are filling up the spots at top universities paying cash, Americans cannot get into universities even with a 4.0 GPA and high SAT and ACT scores. They're going to the trades, and they work for less. So they are creating an American underclass and a Chinese superclass. Interestingly, the Indians are also doing this by taking over management and HR at major high paying white collar and trades companies, hiring only their caste peers based on their Indian caste system, shutting out Americans. 

They both do it because they are in an asymmetrical war with the US, with intent to win at all costs; we are calling it a "trade deal." 

Remember that India and China are two of the five founding BRICS partners. They already are getting closer trade-wise and have reconciled their border dispute. 

Speaking of India briefly, they have no need for anything from the United States other than our money and technology. India gets 40% of their oil and gas from Russia, and they get some industrial chemicals from China. They have their own 1.4 billion strong labor force, and a domestic supply of manufacturing and mining capacity. 

BRICS is 3 years into developing its own members-only currency exchange and financial messaging system outside of western controls such as SWIFT and Euroclear. Nearly 3 billion people reside in the BRICS member states. 

What this means is that the BRICS is largely independent and self-sufficient, without the United States, its consumers, or its economic alliances. Therefore, old points of leverage such as tariffs and economic sanctions do not significantly pressure them any more. As a result, they can play hardball on trade, military and geopolitical issues. 

Both Modi and Xi have been refusing President Trump's calls, according to reports. 

Hence, "the US has no cards." 

If we are to be America First, we must stop all these immigrant-friendly programs (including preferential bank loans); drastically reduce all visas (if not stop them entirely for a while until we recover economically and socially); and reduce greatly (or end) foreign students in universities. Some universities do need to go out of business. There are too many of them and they don't offer competitive, substantive degrees. 

Lutnik said in an interview with Laura Ingram, "If we didn't have the six hundred thousand Chinese students, then students would just move up to better schools and the bottom fifteen percent of universities would go out of business." 

Is that a bad thing, Howard? Having American students move up to better schools, and the bottom 15% of universities go out of business is exactly what we want, Howard.  

Lutnik continued: "[the president] is making a rational economic decision." 

But Howard, we don't want "rational economic decisions" at a macro level. We want — we were PROMISED — America First, not America Last. 

Pretty soon, we're we will be dissatisfied with America First. We are going to want "America Only." Do you understand, Howard? I don't think either you or President Trump do.