Chinese Students Ditch US Plans as Trump Vows Crackdown on Visas
The US embassy in Beijing. The number of Chinese students in the US declined 4% last year to about 277,000 amid increased tension between the two nations.
Photographer: Jade Gao/AFP/Getty Images
The Trump administration’s move to revoke visas for Chinese students is upending Anqi Dong’s dream of a US education even before it starts.
The 30-year-old Shanghai lawyer, who applied to a PhD program at the University of Texas at Dallas in January, is abandoning her plans, saying bad news for foreign students seems to be piling up by the day.