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Synopsis
Republican lawmakers, led by US Representative Riley Moore, are pushing the Stop CCP Visas Act to ban student visas for Chinese nationals, citing national security concerns. Moore claims that the Chinese Communist Party exploits the US visa program to spy and steal intellectual property. The proposed bill aims to prevent such incidents by halting student visas for Chinese nationals.
Republican lawmakers of the House have been making efforts to push legislation, imposing a ban on Chinese nationals from getting student visas in the US, Fox News reported.
Moore said, “Every year, we allow nearly 300,000 Chinese nationals to come to the U.S. on student visas. We’ve literally invited the CCP to spy on our military, steal our intellectual property, and threaten national security.”
“Just last year, the FBI charged five Chinese nationals here on student visas after they were caught photographing joint US-Taiwan live-fire military exercises. This cannot continue,” he added.
He urged Congress to act on “China’s exploitation of our student visa program,” Fox News reported. Calling for ban on all student visas going to Chinese nationals, he said, “It’s time we turn off the spigot and immediately ban all student visas going to Chinese nationals.”
Moore has made reference to an incident which involved five former students of the University of Michigan who graduated in May as part of a joint program with Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China who were accused of s ..
