Why not replace students from China with those from America?

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Students from the People’s Republic of China (PRC) who attend American universities, particularly at the graduate level, long have been recognized as a potential threat to the integrity of American intellectual property. When serving as research assistants to top professors or attending professional conferences, they have been in a position to glean information about sensitive scientific and technological developments that they can then forward to the Beijing intelligence apparatus.
In 2019 and 2020, there were nearly 375,000 PRC students at American universities, including around 325,000 graduate students. They were by far the largest single group of international students studying in the United States. In years past, many of these students who were educated in the United States chose to remain in the country. That is no longer the case. China can afford to pay competitive salaries to their grads — most of whom have earned degrees in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). Only a fraction of these students may be working directly for Chinese intelligence. Nevertheless, all take back home a body of advanced knowledge that certainly could assist China’s effort to overtake America’s technological leadership within a matter of decades.

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