Foreign ministry hits back at ‘political and discriminatory’ move announced by Marco Rubio

Foreign ministry hits back at ‘political and discriminatory’ move announced by Marco Rubio

China has lodged a protest over the US declaration that it will “aggressively” revoke the visas of Chinese students studying at US universities.

China’s ministry of foreign affairs told reporters on Thursday that it had formally objected to Washington over Wednesday’s announcement by Marco Rubio, the secretary of state.

A spokesperson for the Chinese government, Mao Ning, accused the Trump administration of using national security and ideology as a pretext for the “unreasonable” decision, which “seriously damaged the legitimate rights and interests of Chinese students and disrupted the normal cultural exchanges between the two countries”.

  • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.worldEnglish
    141·
    4 days ago

    International students bring tens of billions of dollars into the country.

    You know the fascists are for real when they’re a-okay with shooting themselves in the wallet in order to show how much they hate non-white people.

  • Ad Blocker 117@lemmy.worldEnglish
    61·
    4 days ago

    First they came for brown people and I did nothing because I was not brown. Then they came for the Chinese and I did nothing because I was not Chinese. Then they came for . . .