Chinese Companies Are Buying American Military Academies, Lawmaker Warns

Firms that have ties to the Chinese Communist Party New York Military Academy Cadets now own institutions with JROTC programs.

Chinese companies with connections to the Chinese Communist Party recently purchased American military academies, which operate military officer training programs.

One member of China’s People’s Political Consultative Conference bought Donald Trump’s school for $16million dollars. After a bidding battle with another Chinese conglomerate, Mo Tianquan, a conference member, secured the purchase.

In its bid to create a new school, a Chinese education conglomerate bought the Florida Preparatory Academy two years later. “a global educational alliance system.” This initiative was jointly implemented by the CCP-controlled regional government agency. Both Florida Preparatory Academy (New York Military Academy) and the Florida Military Academy (Florida Military Academy) offer Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (JROTC), programs that train future military officers.

Rep. Michael Waltz (R. Fla.), who is a member the House Armed Services Committee, believes that Chinese ownership of these schools could be a threat to national security.

“To the extent that those private schools have junior ROTC programs that are forming the backbone of our future leaders of our military, this is something I would hope and would expect the Defense Department would work with me to better understand,” Waltz spoke to the Washington Free Beacon.

Waltz sent Tuesday’s letter to Lloyd Austin, Defense Secretary. He asked that the Pentagon examine JROTC programs in private schools throughout the country to determine if they were foreign-owned.

“With the ongoing military recruitment crisis, I am concerned that any students we recruit into the service from these CCP-influenced schools will have a sympathetic view of China’s political and strategic aims,” Waltz, the House subcommittee for military readiness, wrote an email to Austin.

China’s interest in American private schools has led many to speculate about its motives. Beijing has increased its infiltration of American universities and think tanks as well as other spheres.

According to Chinese state mediaChinese firms have entered private school markets “in the hopes of cashing in on Chinese students’ quest for admission into a U.S. college.” The Center for Immigration Studies Notified Foreign students are more likely to be granted F-1 visas to study at private schools than in public institutions. Mo’s when Fang Holdings