Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that the U.S. will "aggressively revoke" visas for Chinese students, particularly those associated with the Chinese Communist Party. This decision follows recent efforts by the Trump administration to restrict international students and comes in the wake of heightened scrutiny over Chinese students in critical academic fields, like the physical sciences. Rubio emphasized that the federal government aims to enhance the scrutiny of future visa applications from the People's Republic of China and Hong Kong, amidst concerns that Beijing recruits U.S.-trained scientists.
The United States will "aggressively revoke" the visas of Chinese students, including those with ties to the Chinese Communist Party, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced.
Rubio, in the statement, said the visa revocation would also apply to Chinese students in "critical fields," likely referring to the physical sciences.
He added that the federal government would work "to enhance scrutiny of all future visa applications from the People's Republic of China and Hong Kong."
A State Department report published last year said that around 275,000 of the 1.1 million international students in American higher education hailed from China.
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