China Hawk Blames Beijing for Trump Visa Bans, Urges Reset

Harvard University students near the campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts. 

Photographer: Mel Musto/Bloomberg

One of Washington’s most vocal China critics defended the Trump administration’s plan to revoke visas for Chinese students and called for a reset in bilateral ties, citing national security concerns.

John Moolenaar, chairman of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, accused the Chinese government of manipulating its students overseas, including pressuring them into espionage, in an interview with Bloomberg TV on Thursday.