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A university student from China, poses for a photographer shooting her graduation photos in New York on June 1. © Reuters

Brabim Karki is a businessman based in Nepal. He writes for The Independent, The Globe and Mail, the South China Morning Post and The Straits Times, among others.

President Donald Trump's administration announced that it would work to "aggressively revoke" visas of Chinese students studying in the U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said people facing scrutiny would include "those with connections to the Chinese Communist Party or studying in critical fields." He added that the State Department was revising visa criteria to "enhance scrutiny" of all future applications from China and Hong Kong.

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