The White House has decided to restrict some student visas, but only to 1 percent of the 400,000 Chinese students, in an effort to counter the Communist Party’s efforts to gather intelligence and steal technology in the United States, Deputy National Security Advisor Matt Pottinger said at an event Wednesday (Sept. 30). The vast majority of Chinese students are still welcome in the United States,” he said.
Booming is one of President Trump’s key figures in the formulation and development of his China policy, and has played a crucial role in the recent “game” with Beijing. President Trump has moved to target about 1 percent of that huge number to target Chinese military researchers who in some cases have assumed and even created false identities,” he said Wednesday night at an online event at the Ronald Reagan Institute. “
The White House has recently tightened the issuance of visas to Chinese students and researchers. During the event, Boehme described the restriction on Chinese student visas as a “surgical” action. He said the U.S. government denies student visas to these Chinese nationals because they may be a security risk.
Bomin added that the action involved people who came to the United States to acquire “technology that would be useful to China’s military development or to the repression of their own people.
The vast majority of the Chinese students were welcomed by the U.S. government, Bomin emphasized. We are very pleased that many of these Chinese students who came to study in the United States will stay here and do great things,” he said.
On the same day, Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Chad Wolf said that the United States is blocking the issuance of visas to certain Chinese students and researchers associated with China’s civil-military integration strategy, thereby preventing them from stealing or otherwise misappropriating U.S. research.
U.S. State Department spokesman Moegan Ortagus said earlier this month that 1,000 visas of Chinese nationals had been canceled since President Trump’s announcement in late May, most of them students or researchers deemed by the White House to pose a risk to U.S. national security.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian reacted to this at a regular press conference, calling the U.S. action “naked political persecution and racial discrimination, and a serious violation of the human rights of Chinese students and researchers.
According to Reuters, even though the neo-coronavirus epidemic has severely impacted the ability of a large number of Chinese students to return to their campuses, they are still generating significant revenue for U.S. universities.
In the past few months, the U.S.-China relationship has fallen to an all-time low with serious disagreements over bilateral trade, the neo-coronavirus epidemic, Hong Kong, and human rights in Xinjiang, among other issues. The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) have repeatedly warned U.S. colleges and universities that “Chinese students may be a threat to national security.
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