PNN – The US President accused Chinese and French students studying at US universities of stealing technology.
According to the report of Pakistan News Network, in an interview with Fox News, Donald Trump, in response to a question about the presence of Chinese students in American universities, said: Chinese students spy on us and steal our ideas and innovations, but anyway, they are better than the French.
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He added: You think the French are better than the Chinese. I’m not sure they are.
The US Department of International Education has announced that nearly a quarter of international students in the US are from China.
American universities have been a destination for top Chinese talent for decades. The number of Chinese students in the United States rose from more than 372,000 in the 2019-2020 academic year to more than 270,000 in 2023-2024, due to the COVID-19 pandemic and escalating tensions between the two countries.