Chinese students living in the U.S. are trembling at the current situation, which is being called a “sure tiger. This is because the shocking announcement by the American First Policy Institute (AFPI), a policy research institute that fully supports former President Trump, has become a reality.
AFPI, which includes many cabinet-level officials from the first Trump administration, is Trump’s policy think tank, so to speak. In May of this year, AFPI published a book. In the book, Trump’s policies include ‘restrictions on issuing visas to Chinese students’ and ‘banning Confucius Institutes and Chinese Student Associations from U.S. universities,’” said Kat Zakrzewski, a Washington Post reporter.
Trump recognizes that the “Confucius Institutes” and “Chinese Student Federations,” which are located in universities across the U.S., are, on the surface, aimed at teaching the Chinese language, but “in reality, they are spy organizations. That is why he intends to wipe them out when he is elected president again.
So where will the expelled Chinese students choose to replace the U.S.? Japan is seen as a possible candidate for a large influx. Mr. Yuuki Okukubo, a writer who is familiar with the situation in China, says, “Not a few Chinese students are already coming to the U.S. to study.
Not a few Chinese students have already started to ‘escape’ from the US. Most of them are not choosing to return to their home countries, where employment continues to be difficult, but are instead choosing to study at universities in other countries.
Japan is the first choice for such students. Japan is so proactive in accepting Chinese students that Prime Minister Fumio Kishida declared, “Foreign students are the nation’s treasures. In fact, the number of Chinese students studying in Japan reached about 115,000 in the last fiscal year.
Mr. Trump, who upholds an “America First” policy, does not care where the Chinese go. If he is reinstated as president, the number of Chinese students coming to Japan will probably explode even further. Weekly Gendai
