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New York Times
5 days ago
- General
- New York Times
Why the U.S. Opened Its Doors to Chinese Students, and Why Trump Is Closing Them
In 1987, when Haipei Shue arrived in the United States as a student, he recalls receiving the warmest of welcomes. He was a graduate student in sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. 'People were curious about us, inviting us to their homes, wanting to be friends,' Mr. Shue said on Thursday, describing an openness that defined his early years in a country then seen by many in China as a beacon of opportunity. 'It was an extraordinary time,' he said. That era of academic exchange between China and the United States, beginning in the 1970s under President Jimmy Carter as a form of soft power diplomacy, now stands in sharp contrast to the Trump administration's recent stance toward the country. The administration announced this week that it would aggressively revoke visas for Chinese students with ties to the Chinese Communist Party or for those studying in broadly defined 'critical fields.' The administration also plans to enhance vetting of future applicants for student visas, including looking at social media posts. Those policies promise to reduce the number of students from China coming to the United States, who have been a fixture on American university campuses for decades. In 2024, there were roughly 277,000 students. The Trump administration says China exploits U.S. universities to bolster its military and technological capabilities. And Trump officials argue that some Chinese students may pose risks of espionage and technology theft. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
South China Morning Post
26-05-2025
- General
- South China Morning Post
Heritage items belong in their home country
If books are a window to the past, the recent return to China of a pair of silk manuscripts lifted a curtain that fell 79 years ago when they were illegally taken from the country before they ended up in a US museum. Their return is a powerful reflection of how cultural exchange offers hope at a low point in China-US relations. The two volumes of 2,300-year-old silk books – the earliest known in China – arrived in Beijing from the United States on May 18. The Zidanku Silk Manuscripts are the oldest ancient classics ever found, dating back to about 300BC. Volumes II and III of the three-volume set were transferred from the National Museum of Asian Art, part of the Smithsonian Institution in the United States. Volume I is privately owned, and efforts were reportedly also under way for its return to China. Illegally excavated in 1942 from a tomb in Zidanku in central China, the books were first acquired by a Chinese collector. They were taken from the country in 1946 by US collector John Hadley Cox. The museum received the silk manuscript fragments as a gift in 1992. Diplomatic efforts to get them returned were started by the National Cultural Heritage Administration of China decades later.
South China Morning Post
22-05-2025
- Business
- South China Morning Post
Xi tells Macron China, France should jointly ‘safeguard' international trade rules: report
Chinese President Xi Jinping has told his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron that the two countries should work together to 'safeguard international trade rules', state broadcaster CCTV reported. The two leaders held a phone call on Thursday, according to state broadcaster CCTV. Xi last visited France a year ago. The European Commission is proposing a €2 (US$2.25) fee for small packages valued at €150 or less sent directly to customers from overseas. For parcels sent to a European warehouse for storage, the fee would be only €0.50 per parcel, the bloc's trade chief Maros Sefcovic told EU lawmakers on Tuesday. Last week, China and the US agreed to a 90-day tariff truce following a meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, although tensions between the two largest economies appeared set to flare again following a US ban on Chinese tech giant Huawei Technology's AI chips.
South China Morning Post
10-05-2025
- Business
- South China Morning Post
America and China's financial decoupling
America and China's financial decoupling Despite their political differences, China and the US are deeply financially entwined. This series looks at attempts by the nations to decouple their finances, and the resulting fallout.
New York Times
10-05-2025
- Business
- New York Times
This Is the Trade Conflict Xi Jinping Has Been Waiting For
Xi Jinping has been preparing for this moment for years. In April 2020, long before President Trump launched a trade war that would shake the global economy, China's top leader held a meeting with senior Communist Party officials and laid out his vision for turning the tables on the United States in a confrontation. Tensions between his government and the first Trump administration had been simmering over an earlier round of tariffs and technology restrictions. Things got worse after the emergence of Covid, which ground global trade to a halt and exposed how much the United States, and the rest of the world, needed China for everything from surgical masks to pain medicines. Faced with Washington's concerns about the trade imbalance, China could have opened its economy to more foreign companies, as it had pledged to do decades ago. It could have bought more American airplanes, crude oil and soybeans, as its officials had promised Mr. Trump during trade talks. It could have stopped subsidizing factories and state-owned companies that made steel and solar panels so cheaply that many American manufacturers went out of business. Instead, Mr. Xi chose an aggressive course of action. Chinese leaders must 'tighten international production chains' dependence on our country, forming a powerful capacity to counter and deter foreign parties from artificially disrupting supplies' to China, Mr. Xi said in his speech to the Central Financial and Economic Affairs Commission in 2020. Put simply: China should dominate supplies of things the world needs, to make its adversaries think twice about using tariffs or trying to cut China off. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
