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Republican lawmakers and officials in President Donald Trump’s administration have been discussing bans on visas for Chinese students and researchers in STEM fields and those with ties to China’s military schools this week, The New York Times reports. On Tuesday (May 26), Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Trump talked about plans to cancel visas for Chinese nationals who are already conducting research in the US and who have ties to universities affiliated with China’s military—a policy that would affect some 3,000 students, according to the Times.
The goal is to limit foreign involvement in research, as investigations into ties between US and Chinese researchers have led a number of scientists in recent years to lose their jobs or to be arrested.
“The Chinese Communist Party has long used American universities to conduct espionage on the United States. What’s worse is that their efforts exploit gaps ...
