Posted on 05/29/2025 6:24:22 PM PDT by KingofZion
More than a quarter-million Chinese students attending college in the United States saw their futures plunged into uncertainty Wednesday when the Trump administration announced an aggressive crackdown on student visa holders from that country.
With an estimated 277,398 students pursuing primarily undergraduate and graduate degrees, China ranks only behind India among foreign countries with the highest number of students attending college in the U.S., according to data from the Institute of International Education. Since China’s middle-class boom in the early aughts, its students have flocked to U.S. institutions, which in turn welcomed the enrollment boost and mostly unsubsidized tuition fees.
Now, China increasingly sits in the crosshairs of the Trump administration and congressional Republicans, who cast Beijing as an economic, military and national security threat to U.S. power and have often linked people and policies from China with the ruling Chinese Communist Party.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in his Wednesday announcement that the Trump administration would work to “aggressively revoke” visas of Chinese students, “including those with connections to the Chinese Communist Party or studying in critical fields.” Rubio also pledged to ramp up scrutiny of new visa applicants from China and Hong Kong. The administration did not detail how it would determine “connections” with the CCP or define “critical fields” of study.
The majority of Chinese students study subjects related to science, technology, engineering and mathematics, according to the Institute of International Education. For the 2023-2024 academic year, nearly a quarter of students were pursuing math and computer science, while 17 percent were majoring in a form of engineering.
Business and management was chosen by 12.7 percent of students, while another 12.8 percent selected “other fields of study.”
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Good!!!
University admins know they get more tuition from foreign students. So, they want them so they can up their own salaries. They don’t give a chit if their American students can get jobs or repay their student loans to Uncle Sam.
Plunge away!
Trump should continue to allow Chinese to study stuff like sociology, psychology and lesbian literature - and then send them back to China afterwards.
I guess China could use about 275,000 new rickshaw drivers???
College Tennis teams will have to recruit American talent.
Exactly.
Get ‘em outta here.
Would somebody break out the violins please?
Oh no! Anyway.
I’ll break out my middle finger and wave goodbye to them.
“Trump should continue to allow Chinese to study stuff like sociology, psychology and lesbian literature - and then send them back to China afterwards.”
Sounds good, but do you really think that CHINA is that stupid, to allow their students to study that crap?
They are all, by Chinese law, spies. Send them all home.
Educate Americans.
Lord they need it!!!!
China won't pay for that.
So Solly Chalrie. Better ruck next time.
In other news, an American student understood a conversation i organic chemistry class today...
Violins? Who’s going to play them?
275,000 fortune cookies say, “there is an overseas voyage in your future”
I say, I say, this WARMS the cockles of mah heart!
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