Wed Feb 23, 2022 – 4:13 pm EST
WASHINGTON (LifeSiteNews) – A Republican congresswoman introduced a bill last week that would ban members of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and their close family from attending American universities.
Republican U.S. Rep. Vicky Hartzler of Missouri introduced the Protecting Higher Education from the Chinese Communist Party Act last Wednesday. The bill would stop the government from issuing student or research visas to senior CCP officials and their families.
Speaking to NTD’s Capitol Report Program, Hartzler said, “We have to understand that China has a plan for world domination. … It sounds like some Hollywood movie; that’s just the reality.”
Hartzler maintains that some Chinese nationals attending colleges in the United States may have family members that serve in the CCP’s National Congress who are helping to make Chinese policy, noting that Chinese President Xi Jinping’s daughter, Xi Mingze, obtained a bachelor’s degree from Harvard University in Massachusetts in 2014 and re-enrolled in 2019 for graduate studies.
“We shouldn’t be aiding and abetting those who want to do us harm,” Hartzler said. “It’s just wrong.”
She also pointed out the dangers of espionage and intellectual property theft perpetrated by college students on
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