US 'still rejecting Chinese STEM student visa applicants': China Daily


In this July 16, 2019, file photo, people walk past an entrance to Widener Library on the campus of Harvard University, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. - AP

BEIJING (China Daily/ANN): Sources told China Daily that Washington has kept playing a hypocritical, double-faced role in China-US education exchanges this year, as it encouraged US universities to enrol more Chinese students while failing visa applications from over 500 Chinese students who had obtained offers to pursue postgraduate study in STEM majors.

About a quarter of these students have won US scholarships, and the majority submitted visa applications after the new US administration took office, sources familiar with the matter told China Daily, on the condition of anonymity.

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