It is bizarre that we can't just talk to the actual leadership of a country. It's really makes diplomacy very, very difficult. Why are we letting 600,000 Chinese students into our universities? It was 300 and change. Laura Ingraham asked President Trump about this and he said, oh, you need to do business with China. It seemed like some sort of a deal had been cut where we gave them a bone of allowing double their students. (37:23–37:26)
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Asserts that the number of Chinese students was previously around 300,000.
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