It was great news to hear that President Trump was taking on Red China in trade to try to lessen the years of the Chinese ripping us off in every way possible. In 2007, Lou Dobbs remarked on his CNN show, “Three thousand front companies we know of, Chinese front companies, are trying to steal American industrial secrets, in addition to the effort to steal U.S. technology.”

However, it makes no sense to continue immigration and admitting foreign students from Red China as if there were no threat on that front. The Chinese remain as unfriendly to the US as ever.

The recent arrest of a medical student smuggler demonstrates that shutting the door to China would be wise.

US: Med student tried to smuggle cancer research to China, Associated Press, December 31, 2019

BOSTON (AP) — A medical student from China who U.S. authorities say tried to smuggle cancer research material taken from a Boston hospital out of the country has been held without bail by a judge who ruled he was a flight risk.

Zaosong Zheng, 29, who last year earned a visa sponsored by Harvard University to study in the U.S., appeared Monday in U.S. District Court in Boston.

Magistrate Judge David Hennessy ruled that evidence suggested Zheng had tried to smuggle vials of research specimens in a sock in his suitcase bound for China and granted the prosecution’s request to hold him without bail.

He was arrested Dec. 10 at Boston’s Logan Airport on a charge of making false statements.

Zheng stole the materials from his lab at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, authorities allege.

Some vials contained a colleague’s work he had replicated without the authorization or knowledge of the lab, Zheng told authorities, according to court documents.

Zheng was possibly acting on behalf of the Chinese government, the FBI said in affidavit included in court documents. (Continues)