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US to ‘aggressively’ block visas of Chinese students | BBC News

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    The Trump administration says it will
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    aggressively revoke the visas of Chinese
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    students studying in the United States.
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    Secretary of State Marco Rubio said this
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    would include those with connections to
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    the Chinese Communist Party or studying
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    in critical fields. Last year, there
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    were an estimated 280,000 Chinese
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    students studying in the US, and it&#39;s
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    not clear how many of them could be
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    affected. Relations between Beijing and
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    Washington have plummeted in recent
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    months as a tit fortat trade war erupted
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    between the two superpowers sparked by
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    Donald Trump&#39;s tariffs. This morning,
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    the Chinese foreign ministry has given
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    its reaction and our Beijing
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    correspondent Laura Bicker has this
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    analysis. The foreign ministry here in
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    Beijing has described a move by the
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    United States to revoke the visas of
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    Chinese students as discriminatory and
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    based on the pretext of ideology and
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    national security. The foreign ministry
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    spokesperson Ma Ning went on to say that
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    this move would damage the reputation of
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    the United States in the international
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    community. Now there are a few things
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    that are very unclear about what the US
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    Secretary of State Marco Rubio has
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    announced. He has said that the visas of
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    those close to the Communist Party will
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    be revoked. However, there are around
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    100 million members of the Communist
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    Party here in China. How close does a
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    family member have to be to have their
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    visa revoked is one question many people
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    are asking. There are also around
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    280,000 Chinese students currently
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    studying in the United States. Will they
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    be in fear of having their visas revoked
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    even if they already have them in place?
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    Many questions being asked at this time.
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    Now, the Trump administration has done
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    this before. In 2020, the Trump
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    administration revoked the visas of a
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    thousand Chinese students. Since then,
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    there has been an agreement between
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    China and the United States with the
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    previous president Joe Biden and
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    President C when they met in 2023 to
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    encourage more cultural exchanges. In
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    fact, President C says he wants to see
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    50,000 US students studying here in
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    China in the coming years. But it does
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    seem now that these kind of academic and
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    people-to-people exchanges have become
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    the latest victim of competition between
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    the two superpowers. Laura Bicker
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    reporting.
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