Why did the USA cut a bumper cut in the visa of Chinese students? Will the relationship deteriorate again after the trade deal?
Marco Rubio, US Secretary of State (left) and Chinese students (right)
Washington/Beijing: The US has strictly tightened the visa rules for Chinese students. Along with this, a large -scale Chinese students have announced a cut in visa. His decision has worried and angry thousands of Chinese students planning to study in America. This decision is affecting Chinese students especially in areas such as science, technical and engineering. Such students applying for studies in top universities in America are the most Chinese. Therefore, China has been shocked by this move of America.
Explain that the US State Department and security agencies have jointly started rejecting the visa of Chinese students and researchers, who are reportedly belonging to Chinese army or universities associated with “sensitive technical projects”. The purpose of this new policy is to strengthen American national security, but due to this, the future of thousands of qualified students has come up. Recently, many reputed universities in the US such as MIT, Stanfort, Harvard, UC Berkeley – have also expressed concern that this policy may weaken the ability to attract global talent.
Why is Chinese students resentment and stress?
With this decision of America, the future of students who have studied 2 to 4 years in various universities have also been at stake. This makes the students out of terrible anger. Many student organizations in Beijing have raised their voice against this decision. Some students say that they were rejected a visa without any concrete reason, while they applied in a legitimate manner. Social media is also seeing sharp reactions about this issue. A Chinese student doing PhD at the University of California said, “I worked for four years, prepared a research proposal, and everything was fixed. Now a political decision took away my dream.”
Why did China fade America?
China reacted sharply after the US announces a heavy cut in visa of Chinese students and strictnessing the investigation process. Describing the decision as “political and discriminatory”, Beijing said that this step could seriously harm educational and cultural cooperation between the two countries. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Mao Ning said in a press conference on Thursday, “This action of the US is unfair, which is violating the legitimate rights of Chinese students by making an excuse for national security and ideology. This has also caused heavy damage to the international and national image of America.”
The Chinese Foreign Ministry said that they have lodged a formal protest to Washington and demanded the US to “protect the valid rights and interests of international students, especially Chinese students”. Mao Ning accused the US of adopting “double standards”, saying that this decision demolishs the American image of freedom and openness.
Why did America take such a step against China?
The dispute between the two countries began with the announcement of US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, in which he said that the US will now “aggressively cancel the visa of Chinese students who are associated with the Chinese Communist Party or are studying in” sensitive areas “such as defense, artificial intelligence and cyber security. At the same time, he also spoke of hardening the visa investigation for the students of Hong Kong. According to Rubio, this step has been taken under the US security and foreign influence. He said, “We will conduct a thorough examination of all the students coming from the People’s Republic of China and Hong Kong.” Because America is at risk of espionage and security from such Chinese students.
Number of Chinese students in American universities
Chinese students have long been a major source of revenue and talent for American universities. According to the report of the Institute of International Education, 2.77 lakh Chinese students were studying in the US in the year 2023-24. However, for the first time this year, India also overtook China in the number of students. Now the most Indian students studying in American University are the most Indians.
What will be the effect on the relationship between America and China?
This decision of America can once again be very stressful in its relations with China. Let us know that the tension in the relationship between the US and China recently was reduced to a great extent, but now the American decision to cut the visa of Chinese students has again increased bitterness. With this, China can also take many tough decisions against the US. However, no announcement has been made yet about how China will answer this. But looking at the stubborn stance of China and the previous decisions of the former, it can be said that it can then respond to America in his language. This can make the relationship between the two countries again very stressful.
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