Given how regressive/repressive many universities have become this is really scary. With that being said it is not entirely surprising given the amount of Chinese investment going into the us with things such as this https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/01/16/how-china... . It is getting more brazen by having them buy our universities and is the perfect Trojan horse. As it is, our universities, which used to be institutions that valued free speech, open inquiry etc. are becoming places with strict speech codes, repression of dissenting ideas and places where due process is thrown out the window. The US education bubble needs to pop, but if it is bailed out and propped up by foreign interests (who's interests are not direct profit from the venture) there could be a lot of other negative consequences for the US beyond stealing IP. To continue to be innovative we need generations of people to be able to critically think about things, not a mass of indoctrinated people.