Trump Takes Aim at Chinese Students and Tech, Threatening to Upset Truce With Xi
Just weeks after US President Donald Trump declared a 'total reset' with China following a trade truce in Geneva, tensions are rising again between the world's biggest economies.
Trump's administration on Wednesday announced it would start revoking Chinese student visas, while also introducing new restrictions on the sales of chip design software and reportedly some jet engine parts to China. That came shortly after it sought to block Huawei Technologies Co. from selling advanced AI chips anywhere in the world, prompting an angry rebuke from Beijing.
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