Cutting through an overload of information to get to the heart of the story.
This is The Point.
Welcome to The Point, an opinion show coming to you from Beijing, An Lixin.
Are Chinese students still welcome in the United States?
And what about vice versa?
The topic of Chinese students studying in the US recently made headlines around the world after US Secretary of State Marco Rubio threatened to aggressively revoke their visas.
Then,
following the China-US deal on removing tariffs and other trade talks earlier this month in London,
President Donald Trump said Chinese students are welcome to study in the US colleges and universities.
That being said,
93,000 less Chinese students are estimated to be studying in the United States fewer than before the COVID-19 level.
What is the situation like for foreign exchange students on both sides of the Pacific?
How are the political ups and downs impacting wider people-to-people exchanges?
Will things ever return to the way they once were?
Earlier I spoke with Naisan Mahboubi,
director of the PEN project on the future of US-China relations at the University of Pennsylvania.
I can imagine, given the kind of political climate we're hearing in the United States,
all the talk of tension,
of terror for Chinese students, so on and so forth,
it must be not an easy task, although you sound effortless.