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2 January 2021
Author: Xin Wang, Baylor University
Chinese students on US campuses have been caught in the middle of the deteriorating relationship between the United States and China. The anti-China rhetoric of US President Donald Trump and his hawkish advisors has created social distrust, leading to an unfriendly political and social environment for Chinese students in the United States. A recent Pew Research Center survey shows that negative views of China have shot up by nearly 20 per cent in the United States since Trump took office in 2016.
The Trump administration has reduced and limited optional practical training (OPT) for international students and limited H-1B and J-1 visas. The administration also threatened to issue an executive order to prevent international students from staying in the country if they enrolled in online schools for the fall semester of 2020.Trump explicitly called ‘most Chinese students spies’.