Chinese national infiltrating Universities in the United States

The Trump administration has intensified its scrutiny of Chinese nationals studying at North -American universities after several cases of the last years of communist students who are involved in alleged under -report activities while in the United States.

Incidents, who have involved allegations of espionage, conspiracy and accusations of misleading federal officers, resulted in Chinese or other Chinese national bonds that participate in joint education programs between the United States and China.

Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, announced on Wednesday the State Department and the National Security Department Plan to “aggressively revoke the visas of Chinese national students, including those who have connections to the Chinese Communist Party.”

A spokesman for the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs operated the new policy in a statement on Thursday in X, saying that the measure was “totally unjustified” and damaging the reputation of the United States.

The State Department says “will aggressively revoke Chinese student visas

“Quoting national ideology and security as a pretext, the movement seriously harms the legal rights and interests of international students in China and disrupts people’s exchanges between the two countries,” said spokesman Lin Jian.

About 300,000 Chinese nationals have student visas in the United States. It is unclear if the State Department plans to guide them all or only to some. Fox News Digital contacted the Department for more clarity.

The following is some recent incidents that involve Chinese national at universities.

Five Chinese Nationals involved in field incident Glaying

The DOJ filed accusations against five students from Michigan University last year after a Sergeant Major found them in Camp Garying in 2023.

The students had cameras with them and were discovered, as the United States National Guard performed a massive training operation on the site with Taiwan military members, according to a complaint.

All Chinese nationals attended the University of Michigan as part of the joint school program with a university based on Shanghai, wrote an FBI official in the complaint, emphasizing that some of them had taken photos of the military facilities and operations of Camp Glaying.

The FBI asked the court to issue detention guarantees for students for making false statements and destroy records.

Chinese nationals violate the military base of the west key

Two Chinese nationals who were graduated students from Michigan University declared guilty by 2020 after they were trapped in and illegally photographed defense infrastructure at a Naval Air Station in Key West, Florida.

Student of the University of Minnesota

Fengyun Shi, a Chinese national studying at the University of Minnesota, was sentenced to the United States district court for the Eastern Virginia district last year, illegally using a drone to take photos of naval bases in Norfolk, Virginia.

SHI was sentenced to six months in prison and a year of supervised release, and the Biden administration revoked its visa in response to the charges. ICE announced in May that he deported him to China.

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Chair of Harvard Chemistry Department

Although he was not a Chinese national, Charles Lieber, former President of the Harvard Department of Chemistry, was convicted in 2021 for making false statements to the authorities and not having reported the revenue of his work with China China University of Technology and a contract he had with the cuts program of thousands of China.

Espionage attempt

Ji Chaoqun, a Chinese national and a single student at the Illinois Technology Institute, was sentenced to eight years in prison after being sentenced by a jury in 2022 to try to commit the espionage and theft of commercial secrets.

It was found that Ji collected information on defense contractors, engineers and others as part of a wider effort by high -level Chinese intelligence officials to gain access within US technological advances.

Rubio’s announcement also occurs after Harvard filed a lawsuit claiming that the Trump administration improperly prohibit all foreign nationals at the IVY League school by revoking their student visa certification. A judge temporarily blocked the administration of the prohibition when the case is presented in court.

State Department that now examines all Harvard -associated visa holders

The acting director of ICE, Todd Lyons, told Harvard in a letter that was made public through the presentation of the courts that the revocation was the result of the alleged prevalence of anti -Semitism on the campus, but also a consequence of the “serious concerns” of the administration that the university has “coordinated with the Chinese Communist Party”.

Lyons cited several examples, including Harvard, who accepted $ 151 million from foreign donors since 2020, working with “China-based scholars” on “Iranian government agent” projects, collaborating with Chinese universities and using public funds to do so and collaborating with people “related to the industrial base of China’s defense”.

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“This coordination is a valid and substantial reason to withdraw from the University of Harvard [Student Exchange Visitor Program] Certification to enroll foreign students, “Lyons wrote.

Harvard’s lawyers argued on Thursday during a court hearing that the Trump administration did not give to the university the possibility of rejecting claims about anti -Semitism and CCP links before the prohibition of foreign students was enacted. The administration agreed to give Harvard a month to respond to these claims as the ban continues to be awaited.