Eric Schmidt
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6,000 Chinese nationals in the middle of the American heartland.
By the way,
The Chinese government, they're evil, but they're not dumb.
Why do they choose U of I?
Because it's so good at STEM.
Because people like Marc Andreessen and Larry Ellison came out of University of Illinois.
A lot of amazing companies and amazing technological developments have come out of U of I. We're now going to pass that knowledge on to the Chinese.
And by the way, in some cases, it's not pass the knowledge on.
It's have the knowledge stolen from us.
You mentioned University of Michigan.
Of course, we just had shocking indictments of Chinese students at the University of Michigan who were literally smuggling bioweapons into the United States in an attempt, we believe, to attack American agriculture, to poison our food.
So in the most benign case,
We're taking opportunity from Americans, and we shouldn't be doing that.
In the worst case, we are actually inviting spies and saboteurs into the United States.
We're incentivizing them to come in, and these universities are at fault, the politicians are at fault, and, folks, we're paying for it.
Here's the thing.
Even if you've never been to college, if you've never sent a kid to college, all of us, every one of us, are financing these schools, and not just the state schools.
In many ways, we actually finance the private institutions, the Ivy Leagues, even more.
Columbia University, for example, the home of Alexander Hamilton, half foreign, gets billions of dollars in foreign aid.
So I'm making the case in this documentary, and Steve, you are a critical part of this documentary.