Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and conservative influencer Laura Loomer blasted the idea.

Donald Trump’s latest comments about allowing hundreds of thousands of Chinese international students into the United States have drawn criticism from some of the most outspoken members of the Republican Party.

Ahead of his meeting with South Korean President Lee Jae-myung at the White House on Monday, Trump told reporters that he plans to allow 600,000 Chinese students into the country — a figure more than double the number in the United States now.

It’s a sharp departure from an announcement Secretary of State Marco Rubio made in May, when he promised the United States would “aggressively revoke” visas for Chinese students and add more scrutiny to all future visa applications from China.

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    5 days ago

    https://foreignpolicy.com/2008/02/15/mao-offered-kissinger-10-million-chinese-women/

    Mao offered Kissinger 10 million Chinese women

    SAToday‘s “OnDeadline” blog finds some choice morsels from newly released transcripts of Henry Kissinger’s 1973 meeting with Mao:

    You know, China is a very poor country," Mao is quoted as saying during the exchange. “We don’t have much. What we have in excess is women. So if you want them we can give a few of those to you, some tens of thousands.” The Chinese leader drew laughter when he returned to the proposition a few minutes later. “Do you want our Chinese women? We can give you 10 million.” he said, adding: “We have too many women … They give birth to children and our children are too many.”

    It’s not clear whether Mao is at all serious — he was a pretty crazy dude, after all — but Kissinger’s response is precious:

    It is such a novel proposition, we will have to study it.

    EDIT: I’d also add that I was fairly sure that there was a second quote from some other diplomatic exchange in which someone, I thought Mao, offered 1 million Chinese people (not specifically women) were offered, with the phrasing something like “What is it that you want? Is it people? We can provide 1 million people”, but I guess it’s possible that I’m just misremembering some reference to the above.

    considers

    Might have been me accurately remembering Kissinger mis-remembering too, since I’ve read some of his material on diplomacy with China, and the source material wouldn’t have been declassified at the time the books were written, so I assume that he wouldn’t be able to directly use it in writing his books.