1,000 Chinese students visas revocked by US, for security risks

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United States Government has revoked visas for 1,000 Chinese students and and researchers, siting security risk as reasons.

According to a report by the BBC, the development is traced to a proclamation by President Donald Trump in May directed at Chinese nationals suspected of having ties to the military.

The report added that it is linked to allegations of stolen data and intellectual property by some Chinese students and researchers.

The BBC report also disclosed that about 370,000 students from China had enrolled at US universities in 2018-19 sessions.

A spokeswoman from the US state department stated that those whose visas were revoked are deemed "high-risk graduate students and research scholars".

"We continue to welcome legitimate students and scholars from China who do not further the Chinese Communist Party's goals of military dominance," the spokeswoman stated.

However the Chinese ministry of foreign affairs condemned the move at a daily media briefing in Beijing.

"This is outright political persecution and racial discrimination. It seriously violates the human rights of these Chinese students," spokesman Zhao Lijian said, adding that China reserved the right to "further respond".

 

US revokes visas for 1,000 Chinese students deemed security risk https://t.co/uUiglSU2NF

— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) September 10, 2020

See some replies to BBC Tweet below:

If you look at Chinese electrical products, most of them are counterfeit. China is ready to steal technology. They are seizing poor countries in debt to China.

— Sushantoo kumar🇧🇩 (@RSushantoo) September 10, 2020

Ridiculous! America's biggest security threat now occupies our Oval Office.

— Linda Rich (@linds_rich) September 10, 2020

Time for China to educate their own.

— Czar Dasoro (@CzarDasoro) September 10, 2020

how to show china and the rest of world that you are a free and fair power, by expelling a 1,000 chinese students? i think not :( it just proves the opposite and those chinese students will remember such a act and spread the word :( its a poor move :(

— paladinbob123 (@Paladinbob123) September 10, 2020

chinese mentality: if chinese is to suffer, so shall the world.
there is a lot of human right violations in china against muslim and other ethnicity, genocide and ethnic cleansing
china only cares for its own interest.

— Boggs (@_NightRaid29) September 10, 2020

Good for the US to stop the infiltration of Chinese spies. #Chinazi #CCP_is_terrorist https://t.co/ny7Y3Knes6

— Full Moon😷 (@FullMoonNoStar) September 10, 2020

The trade war between the duo further expand. And many a times, personal trade war usuall look like national war. The youths of the both side need to wake up. You need to evaluate the national gains of this China-America trade war.

— Dtowncrier (@Nwomay1) September 10, 2020