Trump Confirms Beijing Hacking/Spying On US, Still Welcomes Chinese Students, Approves Of CCP Nationals Grabbing Land Near Military Bases

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President Donald Trump told reporters that China is spying on the U.S. and has launched cyberattacks against it, but that it’s okay. The President also said that it’s good to have 500,000 Chinese students in America. Trump’s statement came one year after The Stanford Review published a report chronicling CCP espionage at Stanford University.

“Did you talk to him [Chinese leader Xi Jinping] about the cyberattacks that he’s done in the United States or the MSS [Ministry of State Security – Chinese intelligence agency],” a reporter asked the President Friday.

“I did, and uhh, he talked about attacks that we did in China, you know,” Trump replied. “What they do we do too.”

“It’s like the spying, they’re talking about ohh the spying, I said well we do it too,” the President continued, going on to explain that it’s just “one of those things.”

The reporter asked about kill-switch code that China has embedded into U.S. infrastructure systems in order to be able to cripple the U.S. at the push of a button.

“Well you don’t know that,” Trump replied. “I’d like to see it, but it’s very possible that they do.”

Trump also said that it’s good Chinese nationals are buying up land near U.S. military bases to keep the farm prices up, something he himself admitted Americans cannot do in China.

“It’s not that I love it, you want to see farm prices drop?” Trump told Sean Hannity Thursday evening, justifying the national security risk.

Trump backtracked on a campaign promise, Newsweek reported Friday that:

On the campaign trail, Trump was already warning against Chinese acquisitions in the U.S. 

At a Smithton farm event in Pennsylvania in September 2024, he said that the U.S. should block Chinese purchases of farmland, adding: “we don’t want you buying our land.”

Regarding Chinese college students, the President said that he likes military-aged communist country foreigners being housed within the U.S. – despite that country actively spying and hacking the U.S.

“I frankly think that it’s good that people come from other countries and they learn our culture,” Trump told Hannity Thursday evening.

In May 2025 The Stanford Review published a report chronicling Chinese espionage at Stanford University.

The investigation was kicked off after a CCP agent impersonated a Stanford student over summer 2024.

“Under the alias Charles Chen, he approached several students through social media. Anna*, a Stanford student conducting sensitive research on China, began receiving unexpected messages from Charles Chen. At first, Charles’s outreach seemed benign: he asked about networking opportunities. But soon, his messages took a strange turn,” the Stanford Review said. “Charles inquired whether Anna spoke Mandarin, then grew increasingly persistent and personal. He sent videos of Americans who had gained fame in China, encouraged Anna to visit Beijing, and offered to cover her travel expenses. He would send screenshots of a bank account balance to prove he could buy the plane tickets. Alarmingly, he referenced details about her that Anna had ever disclosed to him.”

The Chinese intel operation against STEM programs at U.S. colleges has been suspected for years. It aims to steal American research and technology to progress the Made in China 2025 (MIC 2025) agenda of the CCP.

“MIC 2025 is an initiative which strives to secure China’s position a global powerhouse in high-tech industries,” an Institute for Security & Development Policy report said in 2018.

Numerous Chinese-focused podcasts and news organization discussed the espionage report and elaborated on the findings with more evidence of the covert warfare.


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