China criticizes US ban on Harvard's international students

The Chinese authorities says the Trump administration’s determination to prohibition planetary students from Harvard volition harm America’s planetary standing

BANGKOK -- The Chinese authorities said Friday that the Trump administration's move to prohibition planetary students from Harvard would harm America's planetary standing, and 1 assemblage successful Hong Kong looked to capitalize connected the uncertainty by promising to instrumentality them in.

Chinese students marque up a ample portion of Harvard University’s planetary pupil population. The assemblage enrolled 6,703 planetary students crossed each of its schools successful 2024, according to the school’s data, with 1,203 of those coming from China.

The Trump administration's move, announced Thursday, was a blistery taxable connected Chinese societal media. State broadcaster CCTV questioned whether the U.S. would stay a apical destination for overseas students, noting Harvard was already suing the U.S. authorities successful court.

“But with the agelong litigation period, thousands of planetary students whitethorn person occupation waiting,” the CCTV commentary said.

It went connected to accidental that it becomes indispensable for planetary students to see different options “when argumentation uncertainty becomes the norm.”

Educational practice with the U.S. is mutually beneficial and China opposes its politicization, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said astatine a regular briefing successful Beijing.

“The applicable actions by the U.S. broadside volition lone harm its ain representation and planetary credibility,” she said.

She added that China would firmly support the rights and interests of Chinese students and scholars overseas but she didn't connection immoderate details connected however it would bash truthful successful this situation.

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology extended an unfastened invitation to planetary students already astatine Harvard and those who person been admitted. The instauration posted a quality merchandise saying it would supply unconditional offers, streamlined admittance procedures and world enactment to facilitate a seamless transition.

Some radical successful China joked online astir having the assemblage unfastened a subdivision successful the northeastern Chinese metropolis of Harbin, whose sanction shares the aforesaid quality arsenic Harvard’s sanction successful Chinese.

The contented of Chinese students studying overseas has agelong been a constituent of hostility successful the narration with the United States. During Trump’s archetypal term, China’s Ministry of Education warned students astir rising rejections rates and shorter presumption for visas successful the U.S.

Last year, the Chinese overseas ministry protested that a fig of Chinese students had been interrogated and sent home upon accomplishment astatine U.S. airports.

Chinese authorities media has agelong played up weapon unit successful the U.S. and portrayed America arsenic a unsafe place. Some Chinese students are opting to study successful the U.K. oregon different countries alternatively than the U.S.

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Associated Press writer Kanis Leung successful Hong Kong contributed.

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