While the American President mentioned this week that he would be allowing 600,000 Chinese students in the USA, members of the Congress in his Republican Party are slowly moving towards dismantling many of the long-standing partnerships that would make arrival possible.
On the day that Trump mentioned that America is excited to welcome more Chinese students, Philadelphia’s Temple University shared how it was going to end its partnership with the China Scholarship Council, the main Chinese government body funding study abroad for nationals from China.
On Monday, Temple’s president, John Fry, shared how the school would no longer admit more students under this program due to potential national security concerns that were raised by the American House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party. He failed to specify what the concerns actually were.
Last month, the public university was one of the seven universities that had been targeted by Congressman John Moolenaar of Michigan, who is the Republican chair of the House committee.
He asked them to reconsider the partnerships with the CSC, alleging that it represented the Chinese Communist Party. This meant it managed tech transfer that exploits American institutions and directly supports China’s military and scientific growth.