“Chinese students should assess the risk with great caution and think twice before going to the U.S. to study,” the source added.
Su Xiaohui, deputy director of the Department of American Studies at the China Institute of International Studies, said that Washington is sparing no effort to fan competition among major countries and secure its hegemony, and such harassment aims to disrupt and frustrate regular exchanges between the two countries on education, science and technology.
Behind such harassment is the fact that some anti-China forces in the U.S. have constantly hyped the so-called “China threat”, and this kind of harassment “serves to build on their anti-China narrative and China-threat narrative”, Su said.
“Fundamentally, this is an issue of perception,” she said. “When Washington views China as a rival and a threat, it seeks to undermine China in a relentless way.”