United States imposes unreasonable visa restriction on Chinese students and researchers
Americans, the White House groundlessly accused Chinese students and researchers, relating them with technology theft, spying, and security risks.
violates the legitimate rights and interests of the Chinese students and researchers
in the U.S., placing extremely negative impacts on the normal people-to-people and
cultural exchanges between China and the U.S.
Officials acknowledged there was no direct evidence that pointed to wrongdoing by
the students who are about to lose their visas, wrote the New York Times in a report.
expressed their dissatisfaction. “I don’t even understand the term ‘academic
espionage,’” said Mark C. Elliott, Harvard’s Vice Provost for International Affairs. He
said for academics the goal is to publish what they have learned, and it’s to share.
is intended to be shared — released into the public domain to advance human
progress.” He opposes the U.S. law enforcement and intelligence agencies to develop
more robust protocols for monitoring foreign-born students and visiting scholars —
particularly if they are ethnically Chinese.
educational cooperation in the past four decades, have received wide support from
the two sides, serving as an important pillar for their bilateral relations.
students to his country. Since then bilateral educational cooperation set sail and
constantly injected vitality and energy into the general relationship between the two
countries.
has been the largest source of international students in the U.S. for years. The
fundamental reason for such achievements is that Chinese-U.S. educational
cooperation conforms to the common demand of the two countries, as well as the
trend of the time of openness and cooperation.
it constantly makes troubles for China-U.S. educational exchanges. It limited the
length of visas to one year for Chinese graduate students working in fields deemed
“sensitive”, and frequently set obstacles for Chinese students and researchers in visa
application. This time, China-U.S. educational cooperation was once again deteriorated by the visa restriction imposed by the White House.
triggered broad concerns in the U.S. society. Some insightful people noted that
confrontation and mutual consumption would only damage the U.S. interests.
U.S. universities also made voice immediately after the visa restriction policy was unveiled, stressing the move would result in multiple impacts on science and technology development, campus culture and universities’ economic performance.
fanning up the so-called external threat so that they can act tougher in diplomacy
and seek political gains. Recently, legal and civil rights organization Asian Americans
Advancing Justice denounced the U.S. ban on Chinese students from studying science, technology, engineering and mathematics in America, saying this move is rooted in the same racism and xenophobia that led to the expulsion of countless Chinese Americans and immigrants under the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882.
No one is able to reverse the trend of history. Facilitating friendly exchange between
the two peoples is in line with the will of the people and the trend of time.
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