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Boston Globe
31-05-2025
- Politics
- Boston Globe
Why the US opened its doors to Chinese students, and why Trump is closing them
That era of academic exchange between China and the United States, beginning in the 1970s under President 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 Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up 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. Advertisement The Trump administration says China exploits US universities to bolster its military and technological capabilities. And Trump officials argue that some Chinese students may pose risks of espionage and technology theft. 'We are using every tool at our disposal to know who wants to enter this country and whether they should be allowed in,' Tammy Bruce, a State Department spokesperson, said. 'Every visa adjudication is a national security decision.' Advertisement To Shue, 64, now president of United Chinese Americans, a Washington D.C.-based civic group, the policy change stirs profound disappointment. His journey to the United States in the late 1980s was emblematic of a period of increasing friendliness between the two superpowers. Shue recalled the generosity of Americans. David Scott, a wealthy businessperson with ties to the Reagan administration, funded his education through a foundation. That period, Shue remembered, was characterized by the bipartisan embrace of Chinese students, culminating in the Chinese Student Protection Act of 1992, which granted legal residency to thousands of Chinese students in the wake of the Tiananmen Square massacre. 'It was overwhelming support and care and concern,' said Shue, who helped push for the legislation and has long advocated easing China's authoritarian rule and increased freedom within the country. Shue expressed dismay at the Trump administration's actions, viewing them as a betrayal of the image of the United States as a 'beacon for humanity.' Related : The history of Chinese students in America is long and complex, dating back to the 1850s, when Yung Wing of Yale College became the first Chinese student to graduate from an American university. As Robert Kapp, a retired historian of China and former president of the US-China Business Council, explained, early students sought Western knowledge to modernize China. The normalization of US-China relations in the 1970s under President Nixon and China's premier, Zhou Enlai, ushered in a new era of academic exchange. Later, China agreed to send thousands of students to the United States, a number that later swelled to hundreds of thousands annually. Advertisement For China, it was a crucial step in the country's modernization. For the United States, welcoming China's students was a form of soft power. The 1980s and 1990s witnessed a surge of talented Chinese students, many of whom have made significant contributions to American academia, business, science, and technology. And the makeup of the Chinese student population at American universities shifted as well, from primarily graduate students in the 1980s to a growing number of undergraduates today. 'Opening up education was important for establishing ties, for building bridges,' said professor David Bachman, an international relations specialist at the University of Washington. But now, he said, 'I can imagine that there'll be very few Chinese students here in 10 years,' he said. And vice versa. As geopolitical tension between the United States and China ramped up during the COVID pandemic, the number of American scholars studying in China fell to fewer than 1,000 in 2024 from about 11,000 in 2019, said Rosie Levine, executive director of the US-China Education Trust. President Trump's latest move, Levine said, may lead Beijing to retaliate, too, further limiting the number of American students in China — and with it, she said, the United States' overall understanding of a critical global power. While acknowledging the need to address security threats, she said that US policies need nuance. 'These policies are so broad,' she said, 'that they don't give US officers the ability to effectively distinguish between individuals who pose security risks and those who are just genuinely seeking educational opportunities.' Related : Levine said she believed that the administration's focus on ties to the Chinese Communist Party also raised questions about the new vetting procedures. Advertisement 'There's 99 million CCP members in China,' she said. 'Working for the Communist Party or being a member of the Communist Party is a really poor determinant of someone's intentions.' For Shue, the moment is personal. After the Trump administration's announcement, he found himself unable to sleep, mulling the contrast between the United States of four decades ago and the nation he lives in today. 'It's something I can barely wrap my head around,' he continued. 'How did we deteriorate to this point where foreign students, especially those from China, are viewed as a potential liability rather than assets?' This article originally appeared in .
The Advertiser
19-05-2025
- Business
- The Advertiser
Ardern lashes US isolationism in Yale address
Jacinda Ardern has re-entered the political fray with a rallying call for internationalism, rebuking the inward outlook of the United States under President Donald Trump. The popular former New Zealand prime minister spoke at Yale College's Class Day on Monday (Australian time), the undergraduate arm of the prestigious Ivy League university. Dame Jacinda, who has lived in the US as a Harvard-based fellow since late 2023, said she opted against "the usual pep talk that perhaps you might expect" in an address witnessed by thousands. "Suddenly didn't feel enough. Not when the world, over the course of a few short months, moved from tumultuous to an all-out dumpster fire," she said. "There's the war in the Middle East and Europe, with both leaving questions over our sense of humanity. "The daily reminder of climate change that bangs on our door but falls on deaf ears at the highest echelons of power. "Challenges to rules around trade, increases in migration flows, and a decreasing regard for civil rights and human rights, including the right to be who you are." Dame Jacinda said the world stood at an "inflection point in global politics", fuelled by post-pandemic economic challenges, when politicians needed to care for the most vulnerable. "Some of the greatest leaders here in the United States have recognised that amongst all of the challenges politicians face, they must meet the most basic needs of their citizens, first and foremost," she said. "FDR (former president Franklin D Roosevelt) said in 1944 while still governing a country at war, 'true individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made'." Dame Jacinda supported unsuccessful Democratic candidate for president Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election, appearing at party events. In a thinly veiled attack on Trump's America First economic doctrine, Dame Jacinda said isolationism was an "illusion". "You cannot remain untouched by the impacts of infectious disease. A trade stand-off can never just hurt your competitors," she said. "A warming planet does not produce extreme weather that respects borders, and far-flung wars may not take the lives of your citizens but it will take away their sense of security and humanity. "We are connected. We always have been." The 44-year-old said "to be outwardly looking is not unpatriotic" and "in this time of crisis and chaos, leading with empathy is a strength". Dame Jacinda has become a worldwide poster child for empathetic leadership since her response to New Zealand's worst modern-day mass shooting, the Christchurch Mosques massacre, in 2019. Since leaving office, she has made few incursions back into public life, but is expected to expand on her time in office in her memoir, A Different Kind of Power, released in June by Penguin Random House subsidiary Crown. Jacinda Ardern has re-entered the political fray with a rallying call for internationalism, rebuking the inward outlook of the United States under President Donald Trump. The popular former New Zealand prime minister spoke at Yale College's Class Day on Monday (Australian time), the undergraduate arm of the prestigious Ivy League university. Dame Jacinda, who has lived in the US as a Harvard-based fellow since late 2023, said she opted against "the usual pep talk that perhaps you might expect" in an address witnessed by thousands. "Suddenly didn't feel enough. Not when the world, over the course of a few short months, moved from tumultuous to an all-out dumpster fire," she said. "There's the war in the Middle East and Europe, with both leaving questions over our sense of humanity. "The daily reminder of climate change that bangs on our door but falls on deaf ears at the highest echelons of power. "Challenges to rules around trade, increases in migration flows, and a decreasing regard for civil rights and human rights, including the right to be who you are." Dame Jacinda said the world stood at an "inflection point in global politics", fuelled by post-pandemic economic challenges, when politicians needed to care for the most vulnerable. "Some of the greatest leaders here in the United States have recognised that amongst all of the challenges politicians face, they must meet the most basic needs of their citizens, first and foremost," she said. "FDR (former president Franklin D Roosevelt) said in 1944 while still governing a country at war, 'true individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made'." Dame Jacinda supported unsuccessful Democratic candidate for president Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election, appearing at party events. In a thinly veiled attack on Trump's America First economic doctrine, Dame Jacinda said isolationism was an "illusion". "You cannot remain untouched by the impacts of infectious disease. A trade stand-off can never just hurt your competitors," she said. "A warming planet does not produce extreme weather that respects borders, and far-flung wars may not take the lives of your citizens but it will take away their sense of security and humanity. "We are connected. We always have been." The 44-year-old said "to be outwardly looking is not unpatriotic" and "in this time of crisis and chaos, leading with empathy is a strength". Dame Jacinda has become a worldwide poster child for empathetic leadership since her response to New Zealand's worst modern-day mass shooting, the Christchurch Mosques massacre, in 2019. Since leaving office, she has made few incursions back into public life, but is expected to expand on her time in office in her memoir, A Different Kind of Power, released in June by Penguin Random House subsidiary Crown. Jacinda Ardern has re-entered the political fray with a rallying call for internationalism, rebuking the inward outlook of the United States under President Donald Trump. The popular former New Zealand prime minister spoke at Yale College's Class Day on Monday (Australian time), the undergraduate arm of the prestigious Ivy League university. Dame Jacinda, who has lived in the US as a Harvard-based fellow since late 2023, said she opted against "the usual pep talk that perhaps you might expect" in an address witnessed by thousands. "Suddenly didn't feel enough. Not when the world, over the course of a few short months, moved from tumultuous to an all-out dumpster fire," she said. "There's the war in the Middle East and Europe, with both leaving questions over our sense of humanity. "The daily reminder of climate change that bangs on our door but falls on deaf ears at the highest echelons of power. "Challenges to rules around trade, increases in migration flows, and a decreasing regard for civil rights and human rights, including the right to be who you are." Dame Jacinda said the world stood at an "inflection point in global politics", fuelled by post-pandemic economic challenges, when politicians needed to care for the most vulnerable. "Some of the greatest leaders here in the United States have recognised that amongst all of the challenges politicians face, they must meet the most basic needs of their citizens, first and foremost," she said. "FDR (former president Franklin D Roosevelt) said in 1944 while still governing a country at war, 'true individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made'." Dame Jacinda supported unsuccessful Democratic candidate for president Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election, appearing at party events. In a thinly veiled attack on Trump's America First economic doctrine, Dame Jacinda said isolationism was an "illusion". "You cannot remain untouched by the impacts of infectious disease. A trade stand-off can never just hurt your competitors," she said. "A warming planet does not produce extreme weather that respects borders, and far-flung wars may not take the lives of your citizens but it will take away their sense of security and humanity. "We are connected. We always have been." The 44-year-old said "to be outwardly looking is not unpatriotic" and "in this time of crisis and chaos, leading with empathy is a strength". Dame Jacinda has become a worldwide poster child for empathetic leadership since her response to New Zealand's worst modern-day mass shooting, the Christchurch Mosques massacre, in 2019. Since leaving office, she has made few incursions back into public life, but is expected to expand on her time in office in her memoir, A Different Kind of Power, released in June by Penguin Random House subsidiary Crown. Jacinda Ardern has re-entered the political fray with a rallying call for internationalism, rebuking the inward outlook of the United States under President Donald Trump. The popular former New Zealand prime minister spoke at Yale College's Class Day on Monday (Australian time), the undergraduate arm of the prestigious Ivy League university. Dame Jacinda, who has lived in the US as a Harvard-based fellow since late 2023, said she opted against "the usual pep talk that perhaps you might expect" in an address witnessed by thousands. "Suddenly didn't feel enough. Not when the world, over the course of a few short months, moved from tumultuous to an all-out dumpster fire," she said. "There's the war in the Middle East and Europe, with both leaving questions over our sense of humanity. "The daily reminder of climate change that bangs on our door but falls on deaf ears at the highest echelons of power. "Challenges to rules around trade, increases in migration flows, and a decreasing regard for civil rights and human rights, including the right to be who you are." Dame Jacinda said the world stood at an "inflection point in global politics", fuelled by post-pandemic economic challenges, when politicians needed to care for the most vulnerable. "Some of the greatest leaders here in the United States have recognised that amongst all of the challenges politicians face, they must meet the most basic needs of their citizens, first and foremost," she said. "FDR (former president Franklin D Roosevelt) said in 1944 while still governing a country at war, 'true individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made'." Dame Jacinda supported unsuccessful Democratic candidate for president Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election, appearing at party events. In a thinly veiled attack on Trump's America First economic doctrine, Dame Jacinda said isolationism was an "illusion". "You cannot remain untouched by the impacts of infectious disease. A trade stand-off can never just hurt your competitors," she said. "A warming planet does not produce extreme weather that respects borders, and far-flung wars may not take the lives of your citizens but it will take away their sense of security and humanity. "We are connected. We always have been." The 44-year-old said "to be outwardly looking is not unpatriotic" and "in this time of crisis and chaos, leading with empathy is a strength". Dame Jacinda has become a worldwide poster child for empathetic leadership since her response to New Zealand's worst modern-day mass shooting, the Christchurch Mosques massacre, in 2019. Since leaving office, she has made few incursions back into public life, but is expected to expand on her time in office in her memoir, A Different Kind of Power, released in June by Penguin Random House subsidiary Crown.
West Australian
19-05-2025
- Business
- West Australian
Ardern lashes US isolationism in Yale address
Jacinda Ardern has re-entered the political fray with a rallying call for internationalism, rebuking the inward outlook of the United States under President Donald Trump. The popular former New Zealand prime minister spoke at Yale College's Class Day on Monday (Australian time), the undergraduate arm of the prestigious Ivy League university. Dame Jacinda, who has lived in the US as a Harvard-based fellow since late 2023, said she opted against "the usual pep talk that perhaps you might expect" in an address witnessed by thousands. "Suddenly didn't feel enough. Not when the world, over the course of a few short months, moved from tumultuous to an all-out dumpster fire," she said. "There's the war in the Middle East and Europe, with both leaving questions over our sense of humanity. "The daily reminder of climate change that bangs on our door but falls on deaf ears at the highest echelons of power. "Challenges to rules around trade, increases in migration flows, and a decreasing regard for civil rights and human rights, including the right to be who you are." Dame Jacinda said the world stood at an "inflection point in global politics", fuelled by post-pandemic economic challenges, when politicians needed to care for the most vulnerable. "Some of the greatest leaders here in the United States have recognised that amongst all of the challenges politicians face, they must meet the most basic needs of their citizens, first and foremost," she said. "FDR (former president Franklin D Roosevelt) said in 1944 while still governing a country at war, 'true individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made'." Dame Jacinda supported unsuccessful Democratic candidate for president Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election, appearing at party events. In a thinly veiled attack on Trump's America First economic doctrine, Dame Jacinda said isolationism was an "illusion". "You cannot remain untouched by the impacts of infectious disease. A trade stand-off can never just hurt your competitors," she said. "A warming planet does not produce extreme weather that respects borders, and far-flung wars may not take the lives of your citizens but it will take away their sense of security and humanity. "We are connected. We always have been." The 44-year-old said "to be outwardly looking is not unpatriotic" and "in this time of crisis and chaos, leading with empathy is a strength". Dame Jacinda has become a worldwide poster child for empathetic leadership since her response to New Zealand's worst modern-day mass shooting, the Christchurch Mosques massacre, in 2019. Since leaving office, she has made few incursions back into public life, but is expected to expand on her time in office in her memoir, A Different Kind of Power, released in June by Penguin Random House subsidiary Crown.
Perth Now
19-05-2025
- Business
- Perth Now
Ardern lashes US isolationism in Yale address
Jacinda Ardern has re-entered the political fray with a rallying call for internationalism, rebuking the inward outlook of the United States under President Donald Trump. The popular former New Zealand prime minister spoke at Yale College's Class Day on Monday (Australian time), the undergraduate arm of the prestigious Ivy League university. Dame Jacinda, who has lived in the US as a Harvard-based fellow since late 2023, said she opted against "the usual pep talk that perhaps you might expect" in an address witnessed by thousands. "Suddenly didn't feel enough. Not when the world, over the course of a few short months, moved from tumultuous to an all-out dumpster fire," she said. "There's the war in the Middle East and Europe, with both leaving questions over our sense of humanity. "The daily reminder of climate change that bangs on our door but falls on deaf ears at the highest echelons of power. "Challenges to rules around trade, increases in migration flows, and a decreasing regard for civil rights and human rights, including the right to be who you are." Dame Jacinda said the world stood at an "inflection point in global politics", fuelled by post-pandemic economic challenges, when politicians needed to care for the most vulnerable. "Some of the greatest leaders here in the United States have recognised that amongst all of the challenges politicians face, they must meet the most basic needs of their citizens, first and foremost," she said. "FDR (former president Franklin D Roosevelt) said in 1944 while still governing a country at war, 'true individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made'." Dame Jacinda supported unsuccessful Democratic candidate for president Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election, appearing at party events. In a thinly veiled attack on Trump's America First economic doctrine, Dame Jacinda said isolationism was an "illusion". "You cannot remain untouched by the impacts of infectious disease. A trade stand-off can never just hurt your competitors," she said. "A warming planet does not produce extreme weather that respects borders, and far-flung wars may not take the lives of your citizens but it will take away their sense of security and humanity. "We are connected. We always have been." The 44-year-old said "to be outwardly looking is not unpatriotic" and "in this time of crisis and chaos, leading with empathy is a strength". Dame Jacinda has become a worldwide poster child for empathetic leadership since her response to New Zealand's worst modern-day mass shooting, the Christchurch Mosques massacre, in 2019. Since leaving office, she has made few incursions back into public life, but is expected to expand on her time in office in her memoir, A Different Kind of Power, released in June by Penguin Random House subsidiary Crown.
Yahoo
15-02-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Presidential history quiz: How many can you answer? (Hint, we're based in Quincy, Mass.)
Monday marks Presidents Day, which is officially recognizes George Washington's birthday by the federal government. In addition to being a magnet for retail sales on everything from mattresses and appliances to automobiles, Presidents' Day was instituted to honor all of the nation's past presidents. The holiday was originally celebrated on Feb. 22, Washington's actual birthday, until 1970, when the Uniform Monday Holiday Act of 1968 moved it to the third Monday in February. With that in mind, we thought we would create a presidential-themed quiz to test our readers in honor of the holiday. Take a shot! (Yes, we know Alexander Hamiliton was not a president.) (If you don't want to take the quiz on platform scroll down further for the questions and the answers.) 1. There have been four men born in Massachusetts elected president. Name them. 2. The last sitting president to visit Quincy was: a. John F. Kennedyb. Franklin D. Rooseveltc. Harry S. Trumand. William Howard Taft. 3. Where did John Adams and John Quincy Adams board the France-bound frigate in February 1778? 4. Which U.S. president visited Quincy in 1910 to see an air show in Squantum? a. Theodore Rooseveltb. Franklin Rooseveltc. Woodrow Wilsond. William Howard Taft 5. In 1794, President George Washington appointed John Quincy Adams ambassador to what European nation: a. Germanyb. Belgiumc. The Netherlandsd. France 6. Calvin Coolidge was governor of Massachusetts before he was selected to join the ticket of Warren G. Harding in the 1920 presidential election. In what state was Coolidge born? 7. John F. Kennedy played on the junior varsity team of what sport as a sophomore at Harvard College: a. Footballb. Ice hockeyc. Baseballd. Basketball 8. President Abraham Lincoln is best known as being elected president after serving as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Illinois, but in what state was he born: a. Illinoisb. Indianac. Kentuckyd. Iowa 9. George H. W. Bush captained the varsity team of what sport at Yale College: a. Footballb. Ice hockeyc. Baseballd. Basketball 10. George Washington's home was known by what name:a. Peacefieldb. Mount Vernonc. Monticellod. Appomattox Pencils down, readers. How did you do? John Adams, John Quincy Adams, John F. Kennedy, George H. W. Bush C Hough's Neck near the Quincy Yacht Club D C Vermont A C C B This article originally appeared on The Patriot Ledger: Presidential history: Can you pass the quiz (Hint we're in Quincy, MA)
