Chinese students are afraid of recoil after Marco Rubios Visa Revocation Pledge

Chinese students express fear after Foreign Minister Marco Rubio said on Wednesday that the Trump government would start “Aggressive withdrawal visaFrom scientists within demography.

This is a “new version of the Chinese exclusion law,” Linqin, a Chinese student to Johns Hopkins, told the Associated Press. He asked the outlet to only identify him by first name for fear of retaliation.

The 143-year-old law was used to issue an absolute 10-year ban on Chinese workers who immigrated to the US and certain provisions within the law remained in force until 1943 American officers covered the annual limit of Chinese immigrants at 105.

Students who study abroad from Asia have expressed their concern that similar limits will be set.

China is the second largest country of origin for international students in the US, behind only India. Last year the group was good for about a quarter of all foreign students in the US as reported by the AP.

“The American decision to withdraw Chinese student visa is completely unjustified. It uses ideology and national security as a pretext,” spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Mao Ning said Thursday. “It seriously damages the legal rights and interests of international students from China and disrupts people-to-people exchanges between the two countries.”

“China opposed it firmly and protested against the US about the decision,” she added.

The Beijing officials have called the move ‘politically motivated’ and ‘discriminatory’, while some of the best institutions in the country say that the move could cause an increase in registration of domestic talent.

“Having fewer international exchanges is absolutely not good for the development of America,” said Zhang Qi, a postdoctoral fellow in Beijing, the AP told.

“This can be a positive change for the development of China,” he continued. “More talented individuals can choose to stay at Tsinghua or Beijing University, or at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and other top institutions in China, which would improve the development of domestic science and technology.”

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