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Megyn Kelly put Vice President J.D. Vance on the hot seat this week, grilling him over the White House’s startling shift on Chinese student admissions and what that means for our national security and for American kids trying to get into college. The interview was direct and unflinching, the kind of confrontation the mainstream media soft-peddles but hardworking Americans deserve to hear.
The backstory is explosive: President Trump’s public suggestion that the U.S. could accept as many as 600,000 Chinese students into American colleges has set off a furious debate across the right, and rightly so. Conservatives warned that such a dramatic increase risks handing Beijing influence on our campuses and crowding out opportunities for American students at the very institutions taxpayer dollars help sustain.
Vance pushed back smartly where it counts — acknowledging the economic realities that many universities lean on foreign tuition while insisting Washington must never trade away security for short-term cash. He repeated a familiar conservative critique that elite universities have long been captured by left-wing interests and that taxpayers should demand accountability from institutions receiving federal support. That argument struck a chord for viewers who see their children and their communities being squeezed by a higher-education cartel that answers to donors and ideology before country.
Across social media and conservative outlets the reaction was swift and angry, with commentators and lawmakers asking why we would import potential vectors of influence when Beijing already weaponizes talent and money against us. The economic case for international students is real, but so is the national security risk, and many on the right rightly demand far tougher vetting and a preference for American citizens when classroom seats are scarce.
Let’s be clear: America should welcome talent on merit and protect genuine academic exchange, but we must not be naive or transactional with our institutions or our safety. Enrollment numbers peaked before the pandemic and have fluctuated, and now the administration’s abrupt posture swing deserves scrutiny rather than applause from conservatives who put country before globalist optics.
If the administration wants the backing of the patriotic base, it will stop treating universities like cash registers and start treating them like bastions of American citizenship once again — with strict vetting, clear limits, and policies that prioritize our kids and our national security. The only acceptable outcome is policies that rebuild American opportunity, not outsource it to regimes that do not share our values.
