Overview
- Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that visas will be revoked for Chinese nationals with ties to the Chinese Communist Party or studying in sensitive fields like artificial intelligence, robotics and defense technology.
- The State Department has started cancelling existing student visas and suspended new visa appointments while it tightens background checks.
- China’s Foreign Ministry filed formal representations, calling the US decision unjustified, politically motivated and damaging to academic and cultural exchanges.
- Far-right activist Laura Loomer demanded the deportation of Xi Jinping’s daughter Xi Mingze, citing unverified claims that she lives in Massachusetts under PLA guard.
- Xi Mingze’s whereabouts remain unconfirmed despite her low public profile and her Harvard education from 2010 to 2014, with reports of possible graduate studies in 2019 still unverified.