A table frame of a meeting of American and Chinese officials. The two countries are said to be finalizing an agreement on export controls and student visas.
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Access to visas for Chinese students who have been waiting for the waiting for American China waiting
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Posted last week, President Donald Trump said he had entered into a preliminary agreement with China which would allow Chinese students to continue to frequent American universities in exchange for American access to magnets and rare earth materials from China, among other provisions. China has imposed restrictions on these materials in response to prices and export controls that Trump implemented earlier this year.
In the middle of trade tensions at the end of May, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that the United States “Revoke aggressively”
Visas held by Chinese students registered in American universities, including those who study in “critical areas”. A spokesperson for the State Department said that the decision was linked to the concerns about “the exploitation of American universities of the Chinese government or the flight of American research, intellectual property or technologies to develop its military power, carry out information collection or suppress opposition votes”.
The American government previously cited concerns such as justification to restrict visas to Chinese students, as in a policy
Emitted by Trump in 2020 which prohibits visas for Chinese students and researchers visiting links with institutions that would have close ties with the Chinese army. Despite this policy, Trump insisted in his social media position last week that Chinese inscription in American universities “has always been good with me!” There are currently around 277,000 China students in the United States, and China has been the largest source of international students in the United States for many years until India was exceeded by India in 2023.
Targeted NSF budget for conditions
The White House sparked an effort to freeze more than $ 30 billion in spending in several agencies, including the National Science Foundation and NASA, E & E News reported
Last week. This decision affects NSF research and education programs which use funding remaining from 2024 as well as more than $ 100 million in scientific expenditure at NASA, the report. This decision is a precursor of the White House to submit a request for “postponement” of expenses to the congress, a legal mechanism to temporarily delay the use of funds. Delayed funding could later be included in a request for attractions such as that of Congress Considering currently,
which would go up $ 9.4 billion for foreign aid, NPR and PBS.
NIH is 540 ° lighting the anti-dei and boycott policy
Last week, the National Institutes of Health canceled a policy
According to April, this prevents beneficiaries from the exploitation of diversity, equity and inclusion programs and prevents them from boycotting Israeli entities. Unusually, the NIH briefly reinstated politics before again cancelation
He without explanation. The National Science Foundation has implemented a similar restriction
In May, this is still in force. Dei restrictions respond to decrees published by President Donald Trump in January.
The secretary of the Doe to testify on the budget while the Republicans bring together the bill of reconciliation
Energy secretary Chris Wright will testify Wednesday
Before the Senatural Energy and Natural Resources Committee on the budget request from the Ministry of Energy for Fiscount 2026. Doe began to Release more details
At his request, although from the publication, he did not publish the complete documentation for the Office of Science, which he proposed 14% cut
about $ 7 billion. Wright appears before the Committee while he is preparing to advance his part of the Bill of Reconciliation of the Republicans of the Senate, which takes place in parallel with the annual process of credits. Last week, the chairman of the Mike Lee committee (R-UT) Text project,
which includes provisions that would cancel non -obligated funds from various energy technology programs created by the law on inflation reduction.
Also on our radar
- Earlier this month, President Donald Trump signed a executive decree
To make the United States establish a standard for the noise of supersonic planes and coordinate supersonic research. President Trump also signed decrees to extend routine advertising drone
operations and strengthen forest fire
Preparation and response using AI and innovative modeling. - Kseniia Petrova, researcher at Harvard de Russia who was charge
With the smuggling of frog embryos, was released from the federal guard under bail last week. Petrova had been detained since February after his J-1 visa was summarily revoked by a customs agent; The judge in his case has From Régie
This revocation was illegal. - The National Institutes of Health have published a new budgetary plan
This will give more subsidy recipients in advance of their complete funding, but will also lead to a smaller number of grants granted. The new plan was presented in the budget plan for the agency 2026. - The National Science Foundation has announced that a additional
500 prices of the higher education scholarship program were awarded this year. This addition has the total prices to around 1,500 for the 2025-2026 cohort, still down compared to the 2,000 to 3,000 which were generally offered in recent years.