May 30, 2025, 17:24
Amid the uproar of Donald Trump's crackdown on international students in the United States, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced on Wednesday that the US will "aggressively revoke" the visas of Chinese students studying in the country.
Following his announcement, the US State Department published a statement titled "New Visa Policies Put America First, Not China", saying it will work with the Department of Homeland Security "to aggressively revoke visas for Chinese students, including those with connections to the Chinese Communist Party or studying in critical fields".
Yet given that the US Court of International Trade ruled on Wednesday that Trump had overstepped his authority over tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, Rubio might be overly presumptive in assuming he has the authority to give an order to revoke the visas of international students from a particular country. Federal immigration law requires individualized assessments for visa revocations. As such, mass actions targeting a specific group could face legal challenges for exceeding statutory limits or violating due process.
The executive orders Trump has issued have given the world an impression that he and his administration can do anything they want without any consideration of the law. But in a pivotal decision, the US Court of International Trade struck down the sweeping reciprocal tariffs unilaterally imposed by Trump in April, citing the misuse of executive authority and the absence of congressional oversight.
According to the court, Trump's use of the IEEPA to impose universal duties on imports exceeded the scope of the law, which does not grant the president the power to unilaterally regulate importation through tariffs. Additionally, the three-judge panel found that the specific tariffs targeting Canada, Mexico and China related to fentanyl did not align with the threats outlined in the orders, further undermining the administration's justification for the tariffs.
And revoking the visas of Chinese students is no small matter and any decision to do so must be based on the law.
More than 270,000 students from China are currently studying in the US. It is the accumulation of cultural exchanges between the two countries over the past several decades that has made it normal for many Chinese students to consider studying in the US. At the same time, many US universities have been more than willing to accept students from China. Not just for financial reasons, but also because of their academic research achievements.
Chinese scholars and researchers have contributed considerably to what the US has achieved in science and technology over the past several decades. In other words, US universities have benefited financially by enrolling students from China, and Chinese students have contributed to the development of science and technology in the US.
Politicizing visas for students from China in the name of safeguarding national security will not just reduce the revenue of US universities, but also do a disservice to academic researches in many US institutions of higher learning.
The move and the accompanying rhetoric show how deep-rooted the Cold War mindset is in Washington. The political circle in Washington appears to have no forward-looking vision for the long-term development of humanity. Instead, fixated on an imagined golden age of US splendor, they turn a blind eye to the fact that cooperation between the US and China holds great significance and potential for the future of humanity.
If the US does start to revoke the visas of Chinese students, China will undoubtedly take countermeasures, which will definitely further damage the already fragile bilateral relations.
By blocking international students including those from China from studying in the US, Washington is only ring-fencing itself academically from the rest of the world, which will amount to scientific suffocation for the US because collaboration is the lifeblood of scientific progress.
China has repeatedly called on US politicians to view its development objectively and rationally, stop creating bloc confrontation, and refrain from fueling anti-Chinese sentiment in the US. The ruling that presidential authority falls within the bounds of the law is the opportunity for the administration to sober up with a reality check.
As the Trump administration freezes and slashes billions of dollars in research funding, meddles with curricula, and threatens international students’ ability to study in the US, governments, universities and research institutions in Canada, Europe and Asia are racing to attract fleeing talent.
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The US has long been a powerhouse when it comes to research and development, attracting talent from far afield with its big budgets, high salaries and swanky labs.
- How a Trump-fueled brain drain could be the rest of the world’s brain gain
In other words, the Great Satan has run-out of "thin-air" from which it prints the jew-confetti to buy those labs, pay high salaries and fund research. It faces an imminent hyperinflation as debt interest payments accelerate faster than GDP (regardless of the highly dubious GDP statistics which don't correlate with the annual growth figures. Poodleville is now including prostitution and illegal narcotics in its GDP).
The same financing scam is used to fund SpaceX and Blue Origin, by bidding up the price of Tesla and Amazon shares despite neither even paying a dividend.
The US has racked up more than 400 Nobel Prizes, more than double the amount of the next country, the United Kingdom.
Those are Nobbled prizes not Nobel prizes. David P. Goldman brags that Jews get 22% of the Nobbled prizes whilst China barely gets any at all despite having a far larger population. The Nobbled prize in Quackonomics was probably created for the benefit of Jews as awarded a Physics prize to Einstein who clearly didn't understand the basics of Physics or a peace prize to war criminal, Kissinger, who was one of history's most evil sacks of excrement is as implausible as Sam Bankman-Fried's defence testimony.
Does THIS explain the vindictive attack on foreign stewdents, because Amerikans can no longer afford stewdent loans?
Furthermore, China's spending on R&D funded by actual hard work rather than jew-confetti, is catching up:
R&D spending in China has surged in recent decades, and the country is close to narrowing the gap with the US. China spent more than $780 billion on R&D in 2023, according to OECD data.
So, does the Great Satan fear ethnic Chinese getting all the degrees in China along with those in the gangster-run, thieved prison-state of Amerika?
Several years ago, Toyota's chairman announced that Japan's car industry had to give the Great Satan krudmobile industry a break. It doesn't get more pathetic than that. Or so you might think. In 2016, China produced the World's fastest supercomputer. In an act of sad, little bastardry, the Great Satan blocked semiconductors to China. But China then produced the fastest again in 2017, using all domestic hardware and software. Subsequently, China didn't bother submitting an entry and the Anglo/Jew propaganda claimed their Summit was the World's fastest, despite China's being a whopping four times faster.
Surveillance, guilt by association and ideological profiling are not strategies for innovation — they are symptoms of decline
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Joining the chorus is Miles Yu, a former Chinese international student who became a top China policy adviser in the first Trump administration. In his widely cited essay, “Enabling the Dragon,” published in November 2024 the week after Donald Trump had won the election, Yu argues that US universities have become naive enablers of the Chinese Communist Party, serving as academic outposts vulnerable to intellectual theft and ideological infiltration.
- Marco Rubio’s and Miles Yu’s war on Chinese students is misguided
So not as incendiary as Navarro's "Death by China"; a title crafted to garner as much attention as possible.
And who else would you get to smear chinese stewdents other than a former chinese stewdent.
That neutralises accusations of bigotry, lends little verisimilitude to his claims and also neutralises anti-Chinese hate amongst the amerikan sheeple, similar to how Navarro used a fictional character with an anagram of his own name. It's probably why there are so many self-hating Jews.
It's also probably the same tactic to lend caché as Bernie Madoff used for his Ponzi-scheme when he made it by invitation only. Never mind that Great Satan degrees in underwater basket weaving and Harrison Ford are every bit as "Mickey Mouse" as Poodleville's crock o' s**t degrees.
The daft Jim Crow tactic is likely to backfire:
If these students are forced out, the US will not only lose a competitive advantage in global talent — it will damage its innovation ecosystem at its roots. Immigration-driven innovation has been one of the few consistent engines of American prosperity in a polarized and gridlocked political climate. Treating every foreign-born talent as a potential spy will only drive them into the arms of competitors.
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