Senator Todd Young
Senator Jim Banks|
Representative Victoria Spartz
Representative Jim Baird
To All:
I write to call your attention to the lead article on page one of the Jan 14-20 issue of The Epoch Times. I hope you will have your staff obtain a copy of the full article. It is long and comprehensive. Headline: “Behind the Group That Controls Chinese Students in US”.
I have written about this subject before. It involves the presence of Chinese students at both Purdue and Indiana University, but particularly at Purdue. The subhead of the Epoch Times article says, “Chinese students in America are pressured to ‘fight with all their might for the motherland”.
The message from the Chinese government to all Chinese students in American universities is clear: copy and steal everything you can to send back to China. And we let that happen!
The largest student organization on Purdue’s campus is the “Chinese Students and Scholars Association”. This at one of our nation’s largest research universities: Purdue. As a multi-graduate of Purdue, I say to myself, “What the HELL is going on?”. Are we stupid or what?
I realize that Chinese students on campus bring many millions of dollars to universities and to the support services around them. So, the answer must be greed on the part of universities. In a July 2025 article, I read there are about 277,000 Chinese students currently in the US. I also read somewhere that President Trump is OK with up to about 600,000 such students.
Money!!!! I have read that some universities would have to close without the money from such as China coming in. My opinion: TOO BAD. My years at Purdue as a graduate student even at middle age told me the staffing bloat is huge. I suspect most large universities need an Elon Musk DOGE exposure and drastic cuts much like was needed in the federal government.
We have known for decades that foreign students have stolen intellectual property worth trillions from our research and technology institutions. Yet we continue to allow it in the name of money. We must be crazy.
Again, I hope you will have someone seek out the full article for you. It is important for you to not turn a blind eye to this. As you can tell, this entire matter makes me really angry. It is long past time to cut off the flow of vital research and information to enemies.
Sincerely,
Kent H Blacklidge Ph.D.