Why is the Trump administration targeting Chinese students?

特朗普政府为何针对中国学生?

The Point with Liu Xin

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2025-05-30

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On Wednesday, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the US will "aggressively revoke" visas from Chinese students, "including those with connections to the Chinese Communist Party or studying in critical fields." In his announcement on China, Rubio said the government will also "revise visa criteria to enhance scrutiny of all future visa applications" from the Chinese mainland and Hong Kong. This comes on the back of threats to limit the number of international students studying in American universities. Why are Chinese students particularly targeted? Are they the easy target in the ongoing feud between the White House and elite universities? How is this impacting the lives of young Chinese students?
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  • Cutting through an overload of information to get to the heart of the story.

  • This is The Point.

  • On Wednesday, U.S.

  • Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a statement that the U.S. will quote-unquote aggressively revoke visas from Chinese students,

  • quote-unquote including those with connections to the Chinese Communist Party or studying in critical fields.

  • In his announcement on China,

  • Rubio also said the government will revise visa criteria to enhance scrutiny of all future visa applicants from the People's Republic of China.

  • Now this comes on the back of threats to limit the number of international students studying in American universities.

  • Why are Chinese students being particularly targeted?

  • Are they the easy target in the ongoing feud between the White House and elite universities with Harvard at its center?

  • And how is this impacting the lives of young Chinese students?

  • Welcome to The Point, an opinion show coming to you from Beijing.

  • I'm Li Xin.

  • Joining me on today's show, Mally Preherge from Hong Kong,

  • Assistant Director in the Center on Contemporary China and the World at the University of Hong Kong.

  • From Washington, D.C., Klaus Larris,

  • Professor of History and International Affairs at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

  • He was once a visiting fellow at Harvard's Center for European Studies.

  • That was in 2023.

  • From East China's Zhejiang Province, Zhang Gong,