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today we want to discuss
why fewer
Chinese students
choose the United States when studying abroad
in the first half of 2022,
the number of student visas issued to Chinese citizens
in the United States
dropped by 50%
compared to the same period in 2019
according to the Wall Street Journal on August 11, 2022
the previous
Trump administration introduced arbitrary policies
against Chinese students,
which has made many Chinese students feel unsafe
based on data from the US
State Department, the United States issued 31,055 F-1
student visas to
Chinese students in the first six months of this year
which dropped by over 50% compared with
64,261 student visas in the first half of 2019
some
Chinese students who fear being unwelcome in the US
have many alternative options at home and abroad
leading to a rapid and significant
drop in the number
of Chinese students studying in the United States
the US is no longer the favorite for Chinese students
compared with several years ago
the trend is even more alarming
an excellent example is the University of Nebraska
Lincoln, which merely enrolled a total of
415 new Chinese students in the fall of 2021
down a whopping 66% from
1,234 during the same period in 2016
and the school is expecting a flat
or slight decline in the number of
Chinese students enrolling this fall
for over a decade,
China has been the largest
source of international students in the United States
accounting for 35%
of international students in the United States
in the 2019 to 2020 academic year
contributing $15.9 billion an economic value
if we include the shocking consumption behavior of
some wealthy Chinese students in the States
the economic loss
due to declining enrollment from China
will be more devastating to the US economy
also, the decline
in Chinese students has affected the revenues
of institutions,
large and small, across the United States,
which will affect their research capabilities,
making them less attractive in the future
Chinese students
must consider multiple factors when making their
choices, like gun violence,
anti-Asian racism
and ongoing tensions between China and the US,
to name a few
while Biden has said since taking office that
international students,
including those from China,
are welcome to come to the United States
the Biden administration
has not entirely reversed the discriminative
policy against Chinese students
Donald Trump put in place under his presidency
a State Department spokesman
for the Biden administration said
the United States welcomes Chinese students
who contribute to US
campuses' rich intellectual tradition and diversity,
the US
is committed to providing them with visa services,
he emphasized that the presidential order targets
only 1% of all students and scholars from China
still, the arbitrary ban
has ruined
Chinese students' perception of the United States
and many feel like they might be the next victim,
becoming one of those 1% targeted
in the past years,
not only have students and scholars from
China been discriminated,
but americans of Chinese origin in US universities
have also been scrutinized or persecuted
Chinese brains are among the best worldwide
and in the United States
Chinese engineers
contribute much to the country's advancement
the dramatic drop in student visas for Chinese
on US campuses will
harm the United States severely in many areas,
two of which being the reduced tuition fees
and donations from China,
and the loss of top Chinese
brains in advancing America's research and innovation
in the past two years,
more and more
Chinese families have seen
through the weakness of the United States
and they no longer blindly believe the US
is a better option for their kids
the Chinese universities have
also made significant progress on the lists of
most welcomed schools globally
making US colleges less attractive than before
also,
more and more (Chinese) international students
decide to return to their home country to benefit
from the quick development of China's economic
and scientific development
instead of staying in the US
as Tier-two citizens
the hefty tuition
fees and expensive living costs in the States,
typically over one or two million rmb in four years
can hardly pay back in a short time
Indian youths, who are equally hard-working and
brilliant as the Chinese,
will become a suitable replacement for
Chinese international students in the United States
as a result,
India may benefit from the transition shortly
in the coming decade
China and the US
will compete for the
top brains from all over the world
and there will be a scientific arms race
between the two superpowers
just like that between the former Soviet Union
and the US
before the collapse of the USSR in the early 1990s
we cannot say now which country will prevail
in the race
still, China is gaining the upper hand
because it has millions of new talents from
thousands of local universities (every year)
willing to exhaust themselves for the betterment of
their families and the country
China's space exploration
success in the past 10 years has demonstrated the
formidable performance
of Chinese brains to the world
we hope the US
will not lose in the competition to China
and that it can sustain longer
and perform better than it is today
only when both countries can flourish,
the advancement in science and technology
can benefit the human race
eventually
the United States is a great country,
even if it has many problems domestically,
it will still be an indispensable player
in advancing the human race
Most scientific and technological breakthroughs
occurred during the cold war
between the USA
and the USSR when Americans and
Soviets tried to out-compete each other
the race
between Americans and Chinese will give us more
surprises in the coming decades
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