A group of House Republicans on Friday introduced legislation to ban Chinese citizens from obtaining U.S. student visas, citing national security concerns associated with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
Rep. Riley Moore (R-W. Va.), a first-term congressman who sits on the Appropriations Committee, led the “Stop Chinese Communist Prying by Vindicating Intellectual Safeguards in Academia Act of 2025,” or the “Stop CCP VISAs Act of 2025.”
“Every year we allow nearly 300,000 Chinese nationals to come to the U.S. on student visas. We’ve literally invited the CCP to spy on our military, steal our intellectual property, and threaten national security,” Moore said in a statement to The Epoch Times….