“In recent months, dozens of Chinese employees traveling to the United States, including overseas Chinese students, have been forced to return to China every month,” he said.
“This is usually selective and discriminatory and amounts to political law enforcement. China is strongly dissatisfied with this and firmly opposes it.”
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Chinese language classes are rapidly gaining popularity in Russia as relations between Moscow and China deepen
Chinese language classes are rapidly gaining popularity in Russia as relations between Moscow and China deepen
The department also called on the United States to rescind an “erroneous” executive order blocking graduate students and researchers with alleged ties to the Chinese military from entering the United States.
Wang said the order undermines a November agreement between Central American presidents to strengthen people-to-people exchanges.
“[The denials are] “This has seriously deteriorated the atmosphere of people-to-people exchanges between the two countries and contradicts the agreement reached by the two leaders on strengthening and promoting people-to-people exchanges.”
If academic exchanges are curtailed, can people-to-people cooperation between China and America be resumed?
If academic exchanges are curtailed, can people-to-people cooperation between China and America be resumed?
However, academic exchange has not yet recovered.
The Global Times, a nationalist newspaper affiliated with the People’s Daily, reported on Thursday that cases of “unprovoked and disrespectful interrogation and deportation” of Chinese students at the U.S. border are increasing.
In one case, a National Institutes of Health researcher was “interrogated” at Virginia’s Dulles International Airport in November and told his F-1 student visa had been revoked, the report said. A graduate student at Yale University also reported a similar incident in December.