to press Western governments and the broader public to live up to their own professed values.
visas of Chinese studentsstudying in the country. He also pledged to ramp up scrutiny of new visa applicants from China and Hong Kong.
The Trump administration’s decision to carry out deportations and to revoke student visas is part of wide-ranging efforts to fulfil its hardlineChina is the second-largest country of origin for international students in the US, behind India. Chinese students made up roughly a quarter of all foreign students in the US during the 2023-2024 academic year – more than 270,000 in total.China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs criticised the decision to revoke visas, saying it “damaged” the rights of Chinese students. “The US has unreasonably cancelled Chinese students’ visas under the pretext of ideology and national rights,” Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said.
The Trump administration also bannedfrom enrolling any foreign students on May 22, accusing the institution of “coordinating with the Chinese Communist Party”. That move has since been
by a US federal judge.
Still, the largest portion of foreign students at Harvard – almost 1,300 – are Chinese, and many top officials, including the current leader Xi Jinping, have sent their children to the Ivy League school.even ordering preparations to do so in advance of US President Donald Trump’s inauguration
, who he expected to support the idea. He has also said Gaza will be “totally destroyed” and its population expelled to a tiny strip of land along the Egyptian border.For Shenhav-Shahrabani, little of it was surprising.
“I went with some others to South Africa in 1994. I met a justice of the Supreme Court, a Jew, who’d been injured by an Afrikaner bomb [during the struggle against apartheid],” Shenhav-Shahrabani said. “He told me that nothing will change for Palestinians until Israelis are ready to go to jail for them. We’re not there yet.”Ethiopia is thought to host about one-fifth of the world’s population of donkeys.