US revokes visas for 1,000 Chinese students deemed security risk

US revokes visas for 1,000 Chinese students deemed security risk

By Naveel Krishant
Friday 11/09/2020

The US says it has revoked the visas of more than 1,000 Chinese students and researchers who are deemed to be a security risk.

The move follows a proclamation by US President Donald Trump in May aimed at Chinese nationals suspected of having ties to the military.

He said some had stolen data and intellectual property.

China has accused the US of racial discrimination.

Nearly 370,000 students from China enrolled at US universities in 2018-19.

A state department spokeswoman described those whose visas were revoked as "high-risk graduate students and research scholars".

She said they were a "small subset" of the total number of Chinese students.

[Source: BBC]

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