{"id":2438464,"date":"2025-05-23T15:04:01","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T19:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-scorns-trumps-illicit-ban-on-foreign-students-at-harvard\/"},"modified":"2025-05-23T15:05:07","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T19:05:07","slug":"china-scorns-trumps-illicit-ban-on-foreign-students-at-harvard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-scorns-trumps-illicit-ban-on-foreign-students-at-harvard\/","title":{"rendered":"China scorns Trump&#8217;s &#8216;illicit&#8217; ban on foreign students at Harvard"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fchina-scorns-trumps-illicit-ban-on-foreign-students-at-harvard%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2438464&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >article discusses diplomatic tensions<\/a> between the U.S. and china regarding the Trump administration&#8217;s move to prohibit Harvard University from enrolling foreign students. This action is part of broader claims against the university for alleged connections to the Chinese communist Party (CCP) and handling of foreign students, particularly regarding safety and political activities. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning criticized the U.S. for &#8220;politicizing education&#8221; and warned that such actions will harm the U.S.&#8217;s global reputation. The Department of Homeland Security revoked Harvard&#8217;s certification under the University Student and Exchange Visitor Program, citing safety concerns prompted by student conduct. in response,Harvard has filed a lawsuit claiming the goverment&#8217;s actions are unconstitutional and detrimental to the institution&#8217;s diversity. A temporary court ruling has blocked the enforcement of this ban while further hearings are conducted.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">&lsquo;Politicizing education&rsquo;: China blasts Trump&rsquo;s &lsquo;illicit&rsquo; ban on foreign students at Harvard<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2129840\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Trump administration<\/a> is attempting to end Harvard University&rsquo;s ability to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lawsuit-universities-are-helping-foreign-students-who-might-be-national-security-threats-illegally-enter-the-united-states\/\" title=\"Lawsuit: Universities Are Helping ... Who Might Be National Security Threats Illegally Enter The United States\">enroll foreign students<\/a>, with one stated reason being &ldquo;coordinated activity&rdquo; with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/communist-party\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Chinese Communist Party<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/china\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Chinese Foreign Ministry<\/a> spokeswoman Mao Ning fielded multiple questions on the suspension of international students from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/colleges-and-universities\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">preeminent university<\/a> during a press conference on Friday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/3420820\/twelve-people-injured-hamburg-stabbing-train-station-germany\/\">Twelve people injured in stabbing at Hamburg train station, authorities say<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/3420521\/kremlin-vatican-peace-talks-religious-differences\/\">Kremlin says Vatican shouldn&#8217;t host peace talks due to religious differences<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/3420401\/ukraine-russia-prisoner-swap-underway-trump-something-big\/\">Ukraine-Russia prisoner swap underway, Trump hopes it could &#8216;lead to something big&#8217;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>&ldquo;China-U.S. education cooperation benefits both sides. China opposes politicizing education cooperation,&rdquo; Mao said. &ldquo;What the U.S. seeks to do will undoubtedly hurt its own image and reputation in the world.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">In this image taken from a video, China&rsquo;s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning speaks during a regular briefing held in Beijing, Friday, May 23, 2025. (AP Photo\/Liu Zheng)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Mao said the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/white-house\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">White House<\/a>&lsquo;s actions will &ldquo;undoubtedly hurt its image and reputation in the world,&rdquo; while promising that China will &ldquo;firmly protect the legitimate and lawful rights and interests of Chinese students and scholars overseas.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Let me reiterate that China opposes politicizing education cooperation and groundlessly attacking and vilifying China,&rdquo; Mao added. &ldquo;The sanctions you mentioned are illicit and should be lifted immediately.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Harvard boasted approximately 6,700 international students last year &mdash; almost a third of all students at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/ivy-league\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Ivy League university<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/department-of-homeland-security\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Department of Homeland Security<\/a> revoked the school&rsquo;s University Student and Exchange Visitor Program certification on Thursday for failing to comply with an April 16 demand for information about international students.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Harvard&rsquo;s leadership has created an unsafe campus environment by permitting anti-American, pro-terrorist agitators to harass and physically assault individuals, including many Jewish students,&rdquo; the DHS said in a press release.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Many of these agitators are foreign students,&rdquo; it continued. &ldquo;Harvard&rsquo;s leadership further facilitated, and engaged in coordinated activity with the CCP, including hosting and training members of a CCP paramilitary group complicit in the Uyghur genocide.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The DHS is now saying that Harvard &ldquo;can no <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dhs-revokes-harvards-ability-to-enroll-foreign-students\/\" title=\"DHS Revokes ......s Ability To ...\">longer enroll foreign students<\/a>, and existing foreign students must transfer or lose their legal status.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A sculler rows down the Charles River near Harvard University, April 15, 2025, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. (AP Photo\/Charles Krupa, File)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&ldquo;Let this serve as a warning to all universities and academic institutions across the country,&rdquo; Homeland Security Secretary<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/kristi-noem\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"> Kristi Noem<\/a> said.<\/p>\n<p>Harvard launched a lawsuit in retaliation, saying the action was unconstitutional.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;With the stroke of a pen, the government has sought to erase a quarter of Harvard&rsquo;s student body, international students who contribute significantly to the University and its mission,&rdquo; the university asserted in its lawsuit. &ldquo;Without its international students, Harvard is not Harvard.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/massachusetts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Massachusetts<\/a> issued a temporary block against the administration&rsquo;s ban on Friday to &ldquo;preserve the status quo pending a hearing.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The HS will be barred from revoking Harvard&rsquo;s SEVP while the temporary order is in effect.<\/p>\n<p>Multiple universities in China extended invitations to Chinese students at Harvard to transfer their enrollment to domestic institutions.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese nationals are not the only students facing a possible end to their Ivy League education.<\/p>\n<p>Princess Elisabeth, heir apparent to the throne of Belgium, just completed her first year at Harvard.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Count Felix and Princess Elisabeth of Belgium during Prince Christian&rsquo;s 18th birthday gala dinner at Christiansborg Castle in Copenhagen, Sunday, Oct. 15, 2023. (Mads Claus Rasmussen\/Ritzau Scanpix via AP, File)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&ldquo;We are looking into the situation, to see what kind of impact this decision might have on the princess, or not. It&rsquo;s too early to say right now,&rdquo; said Xavier Baert, Belgian Royal Palace communications leader.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/3420473\/judge-blocks-trump-order-harvard-international-students\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">JUDGE BLOCKS TRUMP ORDER ENDING HARVARD&rsquo;S ABILITY TO ENROLL FOREIGN STUDENTS<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For decades, Harvard has been a premier educational institution for oligarchs, royalty, and other international elites.<\/p>\n<p>Canadian Prime Minister<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/mark-carney\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"> Mark Carney<\/a>, Empress Masako of Japan, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te, and many other sitting world leaders were educated at the university.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_2129840\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"2129840\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China criticizes Trump&#8217;s &#8216;illicit&#8217; ban on foreign students at Harvard<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3468,"featured_media":2438465,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/AP25143349673033.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[4501,35136,55746,6240,3634],"class_list":["post-2438464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-china","tag-education-policy","tag-foreign-students","tag-harvard","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/AP25143349673033.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3468"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2438464"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2438468,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438464\/revisions\/2438468"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2438465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2438464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2438464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2438464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}