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.
I'm Li Xin.
Are Chinese students still welcome in the United States?
And what about vice versa?
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 between the two sides?
Will things ever return to the way they once were?
Earlier I spoke with Nassan Mahbubi,
director of the PEN Project on the future of U.S.-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.
I don't know if it actually is effortless,
although I try to make it seem less than supremely difficult.
It is a complicated environment
for trying to maintain some degree of academic between the U.S. and China.
Has there been a huge fluctuation?