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For Chinese students, the beautiful American dream is ending
Trump’s weaponisation of student visas could prove to be the final nail in the coffin for Chinese admiration of America.
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Students walk on the campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on April 15.
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In 1978, as China’s then paramount leader Deng Xiaoping embarked on his historic reform and opening up campaign, he asked then US President Jimmy Carter to let 5,000 Chinese students attend university in America.
“Tell him to send 100,000,” said the US president to his adviser, Frank Press, who woke him up at 3am to convey the Beijing request.
