The Chinese Communist Party is short on pilots. And it might be getting help from its main adversary, the United States. But on Capitol Hill, a senator is calling on the Transportation Security Administration to ban U.S. flight schools from enrolling our adversaries. The TSA should end this extraordinary and self-defeating practice without delay.

China is engaged in the largest military buildup in modern history. It is girding itself for war by building everything from underground hospitals to a military command center much larger than the Pentagon. China is an industrial heavyweight with a manufacturing capacity that dwarfs that of previous U.S. foes such as Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. Its shipbuilding capacity is 232 times greater than that of the United States. In 2024 alone, one Chinese company produced more ships than the U.S. has managed in the past eight decades.