Steve Bannon suggests the Trump administration “immediately revoke” all Chinese student visas
Bannon: “I understand President Trump is not for this. President Trump is — very much wants the American universities to educate foreign students and bring the best and brightest here. I fully understand that.”
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From the April 10, 2025, edition of Real America's Voice's War Room
STEVE BANNON (HOST): Also, the Chinese government has said, hey, guess what, we're not going to do a deal on TikTok. Then, I don't know, maybe we seize the assets in the United States. I think we have to start playing even more hardball with the CCP. They're increasing exercises around Taiwan. This — they are not going to kowtow.
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The other I recommend, and I understand President Trump is not for this. President Trump is — very much wants the American universities to educate foreign students and bring the best and brightest here. I fully understand that.
I, you know, his thinking on this is very sharp and very dug in. He's kind of immovable in this, although I recommend given everything that's going on and the commitment that the Chinese students, not their fault, they have to make a commitment to the Chinese government and essentially to their intelligence services to do a monthly update where they're here as an exchange student.
I think it's just better for this moment in time of what's going on with us vis-à-vis the Chinese government that we immediately revoke all 350,000, which I believe the number is, does that number shock you? Revoke the student visas immediately, get them on a plane and get them out of here and allow all American students to fill those billets immediately. Those — the student billets, a lot, in some of the best universities in the country.
So I strongly recommend we do that, as we get, we're gonna have to go to other measures here besides just the tariffs because the Chinese Communist Party is not gonna bend the knee as Caroline Wren just said.