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US President Donald Trump has defended his decision to issue 600,000 Chinese student visas, despite a backlash from some supporters.
He argued that Chinese students bring money to the US economy and benefit smaller universities and that denying them visas would weaken relations between the United States and China.
"I have a very good relationship with [Chinese] President Xi. I think it's very insulting to a country when you say you're not going to take (their) students", Trump said in an interview with the Daily Caller, published Sunday.
"You know, I get along with China", he added. "China's paying us a lot of money right now. They're paying us hundreds of millions of dollars". [Note: He's referring to tariff money that he thinks he earns from China!]
The president is reversing the hard line his administration has taken on this for months, as trade talks with China continue. Some of his allies in the MAGA wing of Trump's Republican Party have expressed anger and confusion.
"I just don't understand it for the life of me", said Fox News host Laura Ingraham. "Those are 600,000 spots that American kids won't get".
On X, Trump ally Laura Loomer wrote: "Nobody, I repeat nobody, wants 600,000 more Chinese 'students' aka Communist spies in the United States".
Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene also wrote on X: “We should not let in 600,000 CHINESE students to attend American colleges and universities that may be loyal to the CCP. If refusing to allow these Chinese students to attend our schools causes 15 percent of them to fail then these schools should fail anyways because they are being propped up by the CCP".
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio had already said he would "aggressively" revoke Chinese student visas, as the Trump administration continue their crackdown on foreign students enrolled at higher education institutions. He made the announcement in a post on X, as well as a State Department statement published on May 28, titled “New Visa Policies Put America First, Not China”.
This came as relations between Washington and Beijing continued a downhill trend, prompted by a tit-for-tat trade war that was sparked by Trump's tariffs. The two sides are currently in a tariffs truce.
The White House affirmed that those 600,000 student visas will be issued over the next two years, in line with numbers issued in previous years.
Trump told the Daily Caller he did not expect anything in return for allowing students into the country. "No, I just think it's, I think it's, I think what we're doing is the right thing to do", he said. "It's good to get along with countries, not bad, especially, you know, nuclear-powered countries". 😂😂😂
Newly crowned world champions Chen Tang Jie-Toh Ee Wei have surged back into the world's top three, matching their career-best ranking in the latest BWF release yesterday. The pair nicknamed the "Gangster Duo", who stunned China's Jiang Zhen Bang-Wei Ya Xin on Sunday, climbed one spot to No. 3 – a position they last held in July.
There was also cause for cheer in the women's doubles, with Pearly Tan-Thinaah Muralitharan further solidifying their status at world No. 2. The silver medallists in Paris, France remain some way behind leaders Liu Sheng Shu-Tan Ning of China, whom they lost to in the final, but their consistent results have made them the undisputed second-best pair in the world.
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