U.S. considered ban on student visas for Chinese nationals
In the spring of 2018, immigration advisor Stephen Miller pushed for a complete ban on Chinese students — all 350,000+ of them — in the U.S., the Financial Times reported.
United States Sinophobia Tracker
Tracking paranoid rhetoric, visa restrictions, and the targeted policing of China-connected research, which combine to create a hostile atmosphere for Chinese people in the U.S.
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“Faculty members, post-docs, research staff and students tell me that, in their dealings with government agencies, they now feel unfairly scrutinized, stigmatized and on edge – because of their Chinese ethnicity alone.”
—MIT President L. Rafael Reif, June 25, 2019.
Since early 2018, the American immigration and justice system has appeared to target Chinese students, and ethnically Chinese researchers, with paranoid rhetoric, visa restrictions, and targeted policing and politicization of China-connected research. Together, these three trends comprise the primary — but not only — components of the current atmosphere of suspicion and distrust in America of not just Beijing, but Chinese people as a whole.
This tool tracks rising Sinophobia in the U.S. Click on the filters to view different categories of Sinophobia-related developments, including Responses to Sinophobia, like the letter by the MIT President cited above.
Read about why The China Project launched this Sinophobia Tracker, in the words of our Editor-in-Chief Jeremy Goldkorn.
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Trump rants behind closed doors with CEOs
President Trump reportedly said at a private dinner, clearly referring to China, that “almost every student that comes over to this country is a spy.”
A conversation with Christopher Wray
Wray doubles down on framing espionage threats from China in broad societal terms: "China has pioneered a societal approach to stealing innovation in any way it can… They’re doing it through Chinese intelligence services, through state-owned enterprises, through ostensibly private companies, through graduate students and researchers, through a variety of actors all working on behalf of China."
The Chinese student threat?
FBI director Christopher Wray casts suspicion on every Chinese person as a potential spy, as he says, "one of the things we’re trying to do is view the China threat as not just a whole-of-government threat but a whole-of-society threat on their end, and I think it’s going to take a whole-of-society response by us."
