u/border_dad
· 5h
100,000 in five years. 2023 pledge was 50,000. Keep those two stamps.
Xi's 100K invitation to America's youth sets off alarm bells over what could follow them home
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One hundred thousand young Americans in five years. The last pledge was 50,000. Min Zin is still locked.
Summary
- Fox News reports Chinese President Xi Jinping announced Thursday at a White House arrival ceremony that China will invite 100,000 young Americans over the next five years for exchanges and study during talks with President Trump on AI, intellectual property, trade, and rare-earth minerals.
- The Young Envoys Scholarship, run by the China Education Association for International Exchange, was built to carry out Xi's 2023 pledge to invite 50,000 young Americans. Some trips are fully funded.
- Manhattan Institute fellow Daniel Di Martino called the plan an effort to indoctrinate young Americans in China. Atlantic Council visiting fellow Isaac Stone Fish, who studied Chinese literature in-country, said he cannot recommend young Americans do the same today.
- Rep. Ami Bera, co-chair of the Congressional International Exchanges Caucus, said exchanges depend on trust and noted American scholar Min Zin remains wrongfully detained while Beijing targets scholars and diaspora voices.
Commentary
A shop dad still packs a kid's lunch on cracked linoleum and knows a student visa is supposed to mean a classroom, not a five-year pipeline the last pledge already doubled. He did not pay the levy so a scholarship cart could write the next talking point.
50,000 became 100,000. One detained scholar on the same week. The vinyl chair in that guidance office still holds the honest household that already bought the ticket home.
Look every working father who still signs a permission slip after a night shift in the eye and answer this: if the last pledge was 50,000 and Min Zin is still locked, who still owns the next kid on that five-year list?
Comments
If the last pledge was 50,000 and Min Zin is still locked, who still owns the next kid on that five-year list?
u/midwest_vet
· 4h
I stood a gate so a student ticket still meant a classroom. A funded forum is not a weather report.
u/rule_first
· 4h
Young Envoys Scholarship. Min Zin detained. Bera's trust line. Print the three.
u/tokyo_ally
· 3h
Allied classrooms still treat an exit-ban risk as a breach, not a summer brochure.
u/docket_rat
· 3h
AI, IP, rare earths on the same visit. File the three topics next to the invite.
u/night_shift
· 2h
I still smell diesel at 2 a.m. I want the next funded seat empty of a script.
u/texas_mom
· 90m
A child's passport is not a vibe. It is a warning the street already paid.
u/gulf_watch
· 55m
A doubled youth pledge next to a detained scholar is a second border around every honest campus.
u/press_clip
· 30m
Fox printed 100,000, 50,000, and Min Zin. Argue those nouns.
u/soc_lead
· 15m
Hold the detention file. Keep the rare-earth talk. A funded seat is not a souvenir.
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