th China is to educate their elites in our schools, right? Would that be the worst idea? You don't think that the intelligence people could get to our Ivy League colleges and say, "All right, you're going to have a whole bunch of Chinese students and under these conditions, we think it's good for America. You've got to make sure that you propagandize them, make sure that they have, I don't know, let's say an American roommate who might be working for the CIA someday." I'm making that one up. But don't you think there's some way that the US could exploit that many students to have influence back in China some years in the future because it seems like we always get along better. I've said this before. We tend to get along best with the countries where the leader speaks English and has some connection to our country. So this would be creating a whole bunch of people who obviously would be getting better at English. They would have to speak it to come here, but they would be getting better at English and they would just get more connections to our country. Is that bad? Well, if they're stealing secrets and stuff like that, it's bad. But one also assumes that our intelligence people would be all over the phones and devices of the Chinese students, wouldn't they? Wouldn't it make sense that every single device a Chinese student brings over that our intelligence people penetrate so we can keep an eye on probably.

So before you say Trump is wrong about this and I don't know if he's right or wrong. What I know for sure is that he knows more about this than we do. It could be also that there's nothing about this he likes, but it's part of a deal to get something else done. For example, what if the only way we can get a good rare earth mineral temporary deal until we can do it ourselves? What if the only way we can get that is that privately President Xi has said, "I t