The US Will Aggressively Revoke China's Student Visa

JAKARTA - US Secretary of State Marco Rubio insists the United States will revoke the visa of Chinese students "aggressively."

Rubio said the US government would change the criteria for granting visas to be more selective in filtering all visa requests from China and Hong Kong.

Many children of top Chinese Communist Party (PKC) are known to have studied at well-known universities in the US. Chinese President Xi Jinping's daughter, for example, used pseudonyms while studying at Harvard University and graduated in 2014.

Earlier on the same day, US President Donald Trump suggested that only 15 percent of all new students Harvard receives annually from abroad.

He said some foreign students were "very dangerous" and "problemmakers". Therefore, he asked Harvard to provide a list of foreign students and their country of origin to the government.

"Many of our citizens want to enter Harvard and other universities, but they can't because there are foreign students there," Trump said.

"I want to make sure that foreign students can love our country," he said as quoted by ANTARA from Kyodo-OANA, Thursday, May 29.

For the 2024-2025 school year, Harvard received 6,793 international students, or 27.2 percent of the total university student.

China sent the most students to Harvard with 2,100 people, followed by India (790), South Korea (430), Japan (260), and Singapore (150).

Trump also stressed that it is the United States, not other countries, that have invested in the University in Massachusetts.

He questioned why leading US educational institutions such as Harvard accepted so many foreign students.

Trump, who has partially frozen federal funding for Harvard, reiterated his desire to transfer public funds to vocational schools.

The goal is for these schools to become the best in the world and teach skills such as making cars and working with artificial intelligence (AI).

Trump's statement is part of his administration's efforts to pressureHarvard for the university to change its policies, including recruitment of teaching staff. Harvarddutuding is too liberal and harbors antisemitism.

The US government has tightened the examination of foreign students on the pretext that they could pose a threat to national security.

The Trump government also criticized Harvard and other prominent universities for failing to prevent protests against Israel for violating civilians in the Gaza Strip, Palestine.

For these reasons, the schedule for interviewing foreign student visas at all US embassies was temporarily suspended, which offered them hope to continue their education in the country.