Ben Shapiro

I do not care whether those are students from Iran.

I do not care whether those are students from Sub-Saharan Africa.

I do not care whether those are students from China.

It does not matter.

Bringing people to the United States in order to access our systems and then go back to their home countries is a gigantic mistake.

There is no upside for us.

It is all downside.

And I guarantee you that stacking Chinese students at a bunch of top American research institutions is one of the ways that our IP is being stolen by the Chinese government.

So there are lots of things that we can do.

And again, on the international stage, to get back to what is going on in Iran right now, as President Trump prepares to go to China, one of the top issues is what is going on in Iran.

And President Trump has an enormous amount of leverage that he ought to use with the Chinese.

The Chinese have been supporting the Iranians throughout this process.

There is a report that is out today with regard to Iran that the Pakistanis, for example, have actually been hosting, at the behest of the Chinese, Iranian planes in Pakistan.

Pakistan and China are closely tied.

Pakistan has been acting as a Chinese cutout.

Qatar and China are also closely tied.

China's interest when it comes to Iran is in ensuring its own oil supply and in building up an anti-American base in the Middle East.

In the same way that back during the 60s and 70s, the Soviet Union wanted to build up an anti-American base in the Middle East.

So they started pushing Arabist propaganda and trying to ally with, for example, the Egyptian dictator, Nasser.

That was the goal.