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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🥠🥠🥠🥠🇨🇳 Have a nice tlip!!
EXCELLENT!!! America is winning again. We don’t need America-haters in America. We’ve already got too many of them in the DemonRAT Treehouse Gang.
Insanity.
Is it kuje being plunged into wonton soup?
Trump’s visa crackdown plunges 275,000 COMMUNIST Chinese students into uncertainty.
no uncertainty, certain, get out.
bu’ bye.
Excellent!
MAGA!
ooooooo....
Trump is now torturing young Chinese spies..
“Trump should continue to allow Chinese to study stuff like sociology, psychology and lesbian literature - and then send them back to China afterwards.”
Definitely!
LOL
See what I did there?
Crap! Now who is going to spy on us for China?
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Oh, no, Mr. Sam! Sluggo Trump is going to be mean to me!
Great news! I am so sick of these Chinese ‘students’ , posing as tourists . They never want to tell you where they’re from...
275,000 Military-aged students.
Trump is making Chinese students a bargaining chip with the Red ChiComs. Brilliant.
Suddenly, students from the orient, must have automobile insurance?
I voted for this.
Racist/sarc
that’s a big number!
An extremely large percentage of college tennis teams are international students. Many of the best US players are discouraged to to continue playing past high school hool due to the lack of American teammates.
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