The role elite US universities play in training pro-CCP professionals 

Published April 29, 2025 1:33pm ET



Every year, China’s elite send their children to the United States to attend university. America’s publicly supported institutions then provide those Chinese students with high-level technical skills — skills those international students sometimes take home to serve corporations working to actualize the Chinese Communist Party’s agenda. 

This plays out each academic cycle, to little fanfare. 

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