“In China, the government can control education, high schools, colleges, universities. We thought that the USA could be different," one student said.

“In China, the government can control education, high schools, colleges, universities. We thought that the USA could be different," one student said.

Chinese students say they’re questioning their decision to study in the U.S. after Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that the federal government will attempt to “aggressively” revoke their visas.

Rubio said Wednesday that Chinese students “with connections to the Chinese Communist Party or studying in critical fields” would be targeted.

Chinese students who spoke to NBC News on Thursday said that they came to the U.S. for freedoms they felt they did not have back in China but that now the Trump administration is starting to resemble the strict regime they left behind.

  • rumimevlevi@lemmings.worldBanned
    21·
    3 months ago

    A comparison is not an equivalency

    Chinese students who spoke to NBC News on Thursday said that they came to the U.S. for freedoms they felt they did not have back in China but that now the Trump administration is starting to resemble the strict regime they left behind.

    You basically agree with them , they didn’t say that the usa is as bad as china during genocide trump

    • AmidFuror@fedia.ioBanned from community
      21·
      3 months ago

      They would have more freedoms elsewhere than the US, but still more freedoms in the US than China. The problem is they are not being let in or told to go home.

      • Zexks@lemmy.world
        4·
        3 months ago

        Uh they’re explicitly being told to go home. By you know having their visas canceled.

        • AmidFuror@fedia.ioBanned from community
          2·
          3 months ago

          The “not” was supposed to apply to the “being let in” only. To apply it to the “told to go home” I would use “nor.”