Chinese students shaken by US crackdown turn to Australia
Since the latest moves were announced, interest for “study abroad in the US” on Chinese search engine Baidu has dropped to 65 per cent of what it was a year earlier. Australia appears the most popular.
Joe Leahy, Nian Liu, Chan Ho-him, Gloria Li and Demetri Sevastopulo
Justin, a Chinese PhD student at an Ivy League university, had always planned to settle in the US, but the 25-year-old is abandoning the idea after a crackdown on immigrants and academia and is considering studying elsewhere.
Last week, Washington told US embassies to suspend the visa approval process for foreign students pending additional screening of their social media activities.
