For the past several decades, China has sent many students to other higher education systems for education overseas. The Taiwanese higher education sector, which is facing intense international competition, is also attempting to recruit students from China in order to internationalize its higher education and solve the problem of overprovision of university places. However, due to national security concerns and youth employment opportunities, recruiting Chinese students has aroused controversies on the island, and the government in Taiwan proposed a "three limits and six noes" policy to promote the interests of local students and societies. However, this inward-looking policy may bring a wide range of dilemmas, such as the conflict of policy objectives between enhancing international competitiveness and promoting a more restricted recruiting policy, concerns about the quality of students admitted from China, the effectiveness of saving the private sector, the imbalanced flow of students crossing the Taiwan Strait, and the inequitable treatment of different tracks of nonlocal students.