Vetting Must Match Visas as CCP Continues Sending Students to America
Just hours after President Trump announced a controversial new deal with China—including the re-admittance of Chinese students to American universities—questions are mounting over the cultural and national security implications. Shen Yun Performing Arts, through its long-standing mission to expose the truth about the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), is uniquely positioned to speak on what this deal really means—not just economically, but ideologically.
The deal’s headline feature—critical rare earth supply guarantees—may be a short-term win for U.S. manufacturing, but the decision to once again allow Chinese students access to America’s top universities, even after numerous espionage incidents, should give pause to more than just security officials. It sends a powerful message: cultural subversion has a price, and it’s apparently negotiable.
A Shen Yun spokesman is available to address how the CCP leverages “cultural exchange” to advance its soft-power agenda abroad. These students are not just individuals; many are products of a system that weaponizes education, propaganda, and performance to undermine democratic institutions from within. While some may truly seek freedom, others serve as tools for infiltration and intellectual theft—issues the FBI has repeatedly warned about.
This announcement also comes as Shen Yun continues its global tour, offering firsthand artistic testimony of the CCP’s brutal repression, religious persecution, and propaganda machine—topics conveniently omitted from polite diplomatic discussions. With China now publicly rewarded despite bad-faith behavior, it’s more important than ever to recognize what’s being invited back through our academic gates.
Is the United States, in pursuit of temporary trade wins, welcoming back long-term ideological threats?
Shen Yun’s representatives can speak to the CCP’s deep playbook—and why Americans, especially conservatives, should be paying closer attention.
Schedule an interview with a Shen Yun spokesman today!!
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OPTIONAL Q&A:
- What message does Trump’s new deal with China send about cultural and ideological security?
- How can Americans distinguish between genuine Chinese students and those working on behalf of the CCP?
- Why is the re-entry of Chinese students into U.S. universities causing backlash among Trump’s own base?
- What role does the CCP’s soft-power strategy play in international education and cultural exchange?
- Is economic cooperation with China inadvertently enabling its long-term campaign of ideological subversion?
- How does Shen Yun expose aspects of CCP control that deals like this tend to ignore or downplay?
- Should national security concerns take precedence over economic gains in negotiating with authoritarian regimes?
- What safeguards must be in place to prevent future abuse of the U.S. education system by foreign operatives?
- Where can we learn more about the beautiful art of Shen Yun, and how it motivates others?
- The official website can be found here. Tickets for shows are also available there for purchase. You are not only going to see a performance like no other but you are being a champion for freedom.
ABOUT LEESHAI LEMISH…
Leeshai Lemish has been with Shen Yun for 18 years. He earned his bachelor’s degree in Chinese history and language from Pomona College, California, and his master’s in international relations from the London School of Economics. He has spent extended periods studying, working, and conducting research throughout East Asia, and has authored articles on Chinese current affairs in both English and Chinese. He joined Shen Yun Performing Arts as an MC when the company was founded in 2006 and has since emceed close to two thousand performances with the company, taking the stage with Shen Yun at prestigious theaters such as Lincoln Center and the Kennedy Center, the London Coliseum, Tokyo Opera City, and many others worldwide. In addition to his performance role, he has tracked and documented on his website over 100 cases of the Chinese Communist Party and its agents trying to sabotage Shen Yun internationally. He has testified on transnational repression in front of Congress, has been a featured guest on television and radio shows around the world, and is the host of the podcast Shen Yun Voices.
ABOUT LEVI BROWDE…
Levi Browde serves as the Executive Director with the New York-based Falun Dafa Information Center – an organization dedicated to ending the human rights abuses against people who practice Falun Gong in China.
A career software entrepreneur, Levi’s life changed dramatically in 1999 when his best friend came to the office one morning and announced the Chinese Communist Party had taken away his mother in Beijing to be tortured and “brainwashed.” This marked the beginning of his volunteer work to defend human rights in China. Two years later, Levi himself was detained in a Chinese jail outside Beijing for secretly meeting with Western reporters and protesting on Tiananmen Square.
Over the past 20 years, Browde has been interviewed and quoted by the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Chicago Tribune, CNN, the Associated Press, TIME Magazine, BBC, AFP, and other media outlets. He has spoken about Falun Gong and human rights in China at briefings on Capitol Hill in Washington DC, at the United Nations human rights sessions in Geneva, Switzerland.
Browde studied East Asian Studies at Wesleyan University and is an avid supporter of traditional Chinese culture. He founded several software start-ups, and lives in New York with his wife and two sons.
Samples of Levi on camera:
https://tv.faluninfo.net/unmasking-chinas-gestapo-610-office/
https://tv.faluninfo.net/levi-browde-exposes-the-new-york-times-distorted-coverage-of-human-rights/
ABOUT YING CHEN…
Ying Chen is an orchestra conductor who has been with Shen Yun from the very beginning. She can offer insights and personal stories about how Shen Yun started as an all-volunteer group of first- generation immigrants, and through hard work, faith, and a relentless dedication to a grand vision to revive a culture almost destroyed in communist China, created the fastest growing performing arts company in American history.
Ying can also tell the horrific story of her family’s detention and torture in China, an experience that helped drive her and the entire community at Shen Yun to create a production that would shed light on the tyranny of the Chinese communist regime, while also inspiring people around the world with hope and a renewed sense of our common humanity.
The story of Ying, her family, and community at Shen Yun is a quintessential tale of facing the evils of the world with resilience and faith, and never letting others, even the largest totalitarian regime on earth, take away one’s hope.
CONTACT: Todd Baumann at 512-966-0983 or by email Jerry McGlothlin at bookings@specialguests.com.
