 "US will start revoking visas of Chinese students, says Rubio")
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Wednesday that the US will start revoking visas of Chinese students, especially those linked to the Communist Party or studying in sensitive areas.
“The US will begin revoking visas of Chinese students, including those with connections to the Chinese Communist Party or studying in critical fields,” Rubio said in a post on X.
China remains at the centre of former President Trump’s global trade war, which has shaken financial markets, disrupted supply chains, and raised fears of a major global economic slowdown.
The number of Chinese students in the US has dropped to about 277,000 in 2024, down from a peak of 370,000 in 2019. The decline is partly due to rising tensions between the US and China and stricter checks on Chinese students by the US government.
New guidelines from the US State Department are adding more checks on international students, as part of Trump’s wider effort to tighten control over foreign admissions in US universities.
The announcement came days after the Trump administration moved to block Harvard University from enrolling any international students, a decision that has been put on hold by a federal judge, pending a lawsuit.
Trump on Wednesday said that Harvard, whose current student population is made up of more than a quarter of international students, should limit that percentage to about 15 per cent.
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More Shorts“I want to make sure the foreign students are people that can love our country,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office.
Earlier this year, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested and tried to deport students who had been involved in campus protests against the Israel-Hamas war.
The Trump administration abruptly terminated the legal status of thousands of international students before reversing itself and then expanding the grounds on which students can lose permission to study in the US.
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