State Department says it will 'aggressively' revoke visas for Chinese students

Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced connected Wednesday the U.S. volition statesman "aggressively" revoking visas of Chinese students, including those with connections to the Chinese Communist Party oregon studying successful captious fields.

"Under President Donald Trump’s leadership, the U.S. State Department volition enactment with the Department of Homeland Security to aggressively revoke visas for Chinese students, including those with connections to the Chinese Communist Party oregon studying successful captious fields," Rubio wrote successful a statement. 

The State Department volition besides revise visa criteria to heighten scrutiny of each aboriginal visa applications from the People’s Republic of China and Hong Kong.

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In March, House Republicans introduced the Stop Chinese Communist Prying by Vindicating Intellectual Safeguards successful Academia Act, besides known arsenic the Stop CCP VISAs Act.

In an interrogation with FOX Business connected May 12, Florida Senator Ashley Moody criticized providing visas to Chinese nationals.

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"How tin we support offering 300,000 pupil visas to Chinese nationals each twelvemonth erstwhile we KNOW they are legally required to stitchery quality for the CCP? The reply is simple: we can't," Moody wrote successful a station connected X. "@StanfordReview's study connected CCP espionage connected field should daze everyone and verify what I person been saying. We request to walk my STOP CCP Visas Act to support our nationalist security."