Chinese students despair as US cracks down on visas

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Chinese students with offers from US universities expressed despair after Washington promised to start “aggressively” revoking Chinese student visas and ordered US missions abroad to stop scheduling new student visa appointments.

If applied to a broad segment of the 277,000 Chinese students already at US colleges, the move could disrupt a major source of income for universities and a crucial pipeline of talent for US technology companies as the Trump administration pursues its hardline immigration agenda.

“It’s pretty absurd. It doesn’t seem like something that should happen these days. I scrolled social media and felt quite anxious seeing other people's reactions,” said Chen, 22, who has a postgraduate offer to study a humanities subject from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.