Trump bans entry of certain groups of Chinese students to US

Washington:

US President Donald Trump has issued a proclamation banning the entry of Chinese college students and researchers having ties with the People’s Liberation Army to dismantle China’s efforts to make use of graduate college students to amass mental property and know-how from America. Trump’s announcement got here amidst escalating confrontation between the US and China over commerce, the origins of the novel coronavirus pandemic, Beijing’s safety crackdown in Hong Kong and the communist large’s aggressive army strikes within the disputed South China Sea.

Issuing the proclamation on Friday, Trump stated China is engaged in a wide-ranging and closely resourced marketing campaign to amass delicate US applied sciences and mental property to modernise its large army, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA). This motion of China is a menace to the US’ long-term financial vitality and the security and safety of the American individuals, he stated. Trump alleged that China makes use of some Chinese college students, principally postgraduate and postdoctoral researchers, to function as non-traditional collectors of mental property.

Therefore, Chinese postgraduate college students or researchers who’re or have been related to the PLA are at excessive danger of being exploited or co-opted by the Chinese authorities and supply explicit trigger for concern. “In light of the above, I have determined that the entry of certain” Chinese nationals “seeking to enter the US pursuant to an ‘F’ or ‘J’ visa to study or conduct research in the US would be detrimental to the interests” of America, he stated.

China on Friday had termed Trump’s menace to slap sanctions on its college students in America as racist, saying it’s a brazen political persecution and harking back to the McCarthy period. McCarthyism is the follow of constructing accusations of subversion or treason with out correct regard for proof. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian stated the plan exposes a deep-rooted Cold War and zero-sum mentality that permeates the pondering of some Americans and warned the US to not violate the authorized rights of the Chinese college students in America.

While the F-1 visa is for college students attending a full-time diploma or educational programme at a faculty, school or college within the US, the J-1 visa presents cultural and academic alternate alternatives in America by programmes overseen by the US State Department. The F-1 visa is legitimate for so long as it takes the coed to complete his or her course of research. An F-1 Visa additionally permits college students to work on campus and in some conditions even off campus.

Describing the proclamation as a great step, Congressman Mike Rogers, Ranking Member of the House Homeland Security Committee, stated China is dedicated to a long-term marketing campaign for international technological management, even when it means stealing their option to the highest. China has taken concerted steps to extract the newest applied sciences from main American establishments and switch data again to China’s protection industrial base and state-run industries. “This is a wholesale attack on American competitiveness. I commend the President for issuing this proclamation. It is a good step forward to safeguard our national security and American economic competitiveness,” he stated. 

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