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US Ban on Chinese Students With Military Links Divides Experts on Impact

Forest Cong

   WASHINGTON - A new U.S. ban on Chinese graduate students with military
   ties went into effect this week, and universities are still grappling
   over its expected impact on American universities and several thousand
   Chinese students.

   President Donald Trump signed a [1]proclamation on May 29, barring
   Chinese graduate students and researchers who have ties with the
   People's Liberation Army (PLA) from entering the United States, part of
   a new U.S. effort to stop China from using graduate students to steal
   intellectual property and technology from America.

   People who oppose the new ban said the policy would undercut the
   ability of American universities to conduct cutting-edge research,
   since graduate research assistants are disproportionately international
   students, manyfrom China. The measure also could hurt American
   universities' finances as well as U.S. competitiveness in scientific
   innovation.

   'Seven Sons of National Defense'

   The executive order gives the U.S. secretary of state discretion to
   determine which students are banned under the new measure, but the
   order does not specify which students are affected.

   Citing anonymous U.S. officials, [2]news media reports said the ban
   targets seven military-affiliated universities in China, including
   Northwestern Polytechnical University, Harbin Engineering University,
   Harbin Institute of Technology, Beihang University (formerly known as
   Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics), University of
   Aeronautics and Astronautics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Nanjing
   University of Science and Technology and Nanjing University of
   Aeronautics and Astronautics.

   All seven are directed by China's Ministry of Industry and information
   Technology and are referred to as the "[3]Seven Sons of National
   Defense."

   "The new policy will impact about 3,000 to 4,000 Chinese international
   students," said Robert Daly, the Director of the Wilson Center's
   Kissinger Institute on China and the United States.

   That's a small fraction of an estimated 350,000 or more [4]Chinese
   students studying at American universities,but the ban could lead to
   fewer overall enrollments from Chinese students.

References

   1. https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/proclamation-suspension-entry-nonimmigrants-certain-students-researchers-peoples-republic-china/
   2. https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2020/05/29/us-plans-cancel-visas-students-ties-universities-connected-chinese-military
   3. https://www.aspi.org.au/report/china-defence-universities-tracker
   4. https://www.statista.com/statistics/372900/number-of-chinese-students-that-study-in-the-us/

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