The new visa policy for Chinese international students marks another major shift in the U.S.-China decoupling. It’s getting personal.
The potential impact is way bigger than tariffs.
It’s also personal for host Terri Wu because she came to America as a Chinese student.
There’s a lot to unpack: national security concerns, personal concerns, and emotional reactions.
The count of Chinese students in the United States began with 52 in 1978. Five years after that, it increased to 100,000. Today it’s about 277,000.
Allowing Chinese students to study in the U.S. was part of the “People’s War” strategy deployed by Deng Xiaoping.
One expert, John Lenczowski, a former senior official in President Ronald Reagan’s National Security Council, said there are 25,000 Chinese intelligence collectors in Silicon Valley alone.
Join Terri as she explores the historical—and the emotional—aspects of the complex relationship between the United States and China, and by extension, the people of the two countries.
Views expressed in this episode are opinions of the host and guests and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.
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