Molson Hart

More stupidity out of Washington. There are almost 100 million communist party members in China. I've known many of them and the idea denying them citizenship for, for most, what is a social club akin to the US's Rotary Club, is totally absurd.https://twitter.com/ericfish85/status/1273258310704250882 …

Want to win a cold war with China? Do the opposite. Start handing out visas to everyone with a stem degree. Oh, are you smart and hardworking (almost all Chinese are hardworking in my experience)? Welcome to America!

That sounds like a quick way to turn all our intellectual institutions into cloistered ethnic in-groups in exchange for the opportunity to "evangelize" free-market principles to imported communists.

I think your first point has merit, but I don't think your second point does. Communist party members don't believe in communism. It's a nationalist organization that believes in the superiority of Communist leadership and Chinese people.

I understand that's the general idea, but I don't think we can assume that most working immigrants we bring in based on merit won't bring with them the ideology of their home countries. If the communist party really contained no true believers, it would collapse on it's own.

All immigrants bring the ideology of their home country in varying proportions. The Communist party is today a misnomer. No one believes in communism in the party. It's not practiced whatsoever. Trust me, I have a member of the communist party asking me to send him money now.

My sticking point is opening up STEM-related institutions to a deluge of a certain ideology (even if it isn't communism, per se), specifically from a country that is our ideological enemy. I understand you're proposing a non-violent solution, my contention is the risk is too high