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Al Jazeera Staff

US to revoke Chinese student visas: What’s the likely impact?

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the visa criteria will also be revised to increase scrutiny of future applications coming from China. [File: Will Oliver/EPA]

United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced on Wednesday that President Donald Trump’s administration will “aggressively” revoke the visas of Chinese students studying in the country.

The move comes amid the Trump administration’s ongoing efforts to crack down on international students attending universities in the US, and at a time when Washington and Beijing are trying to negotiate a trade deal to end a spiralling tariff war between the world’s two largest economies.

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