Need Chinese Students In Humanities, Indian For Sciences: US Diplomat
NDTV
The US diplomat said said the US needed to recruit more international students for those fields, but from India - an increasingly important US security partner - not China.
The US should welcome more students from China, but to study the humanities rather than sciences, the second-ranked US diplomat said on Monday, noting that US universities are limiting Chinese students' access to sensitive technology given security concerns.
Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell said not enough Americans were studying science, technology, engineering and mathematics. He said the US needed to recruit more international students for those fields, but from India - an increasingly important US security partner - not China.
For years, Chinese students have made up the largest foreign student body in the US and totaled nearly 290,000 in the 2022/23 academic year. But some in academia and civil society argue that deteriorating US-China relations and concerns about theft of US expertise, have derailed scientific cooperation and subjected Chinese students to unwarranted suspicion.
