The spread of the Sino-US trade war seems to have just begun to unfold.
Within 24 hours of May 14, local time, many Chinese in China and abroad may not have known that some US parliament councillor has introduced a bill to restrict some Chinese citizen from studying or conducting academic exchanges in the United States.
This news, like bomb, is exploding in the circle of studying abroad all over the world!
"We intend to restrict China`s citizen from going abroad!"
Then, this morning, the news agency immediately forwarded the news:
According to the bill, for all Chinese citizen applying for study or academic exchange in the United States, visa officers should consult "safety advice" if their research disciplines are on the "business control list" in the United States, sending the applicant`s materials back to Washington. To conduct an additional examination of the applicant.
The review cycle is unknown.
It is important to emphasize the so-called American business control list.
This list limits the export of many emerging and basic technologies in the United States, including some representative technology categories:
(I) Biotechnology:
(i) nanobiology;
(ii) synthetic biology;
(iv) genome and genetic engineering;
(v) neuroscience.
(II) AI and machine learning technology:
(i) neural network and deep learning (for example, brain modeling, time series prediction, classification);
(ii) evolution and genetic computing (e.g. genetic algorithm, genetic programming);
(iii) reinforcement learning;
(iv) computer vision (for example, object recognition, image understanding);
(v) expert system (for example, decision support system, teaching system);
(vi) speech and audio processing (for example, speech recognition and production);
(vii) natural language processing (for example, machine translation);
(viii) programming (for example, scheduling, game);
(ix) Audio and Video processing Technology (for example, Voice Clone, deepfake);)
(x) AI cloud technology;
(xi) AI chipset.
(3) Positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) technology.
(IV) Microprocessor technology:
(i) on-chip system (SoC);
(ii) on-chip stack memory.
(v) Advanced computing techniques:
(i) is memory-centric logic.
(VI) data analysis techniques:
(i) visualization;
(ii) automatic analysis algorithm;
(iii) context-aware computing.
(VII) Quantum information and sensing technology:
(i) quantum computing;
(ii) quantum encryption;
(iii) quantum sensing.
(VIII) Logistics technology:
(i) mobile power;
(ii) modeling and simulation;
The overall visibility of (iii) assets;
(iv) Logistics system (DBLS). Based on Distribution
(9) Additive manufacturing (such as 3D printing).
(X) Robots:
(i) micro UAV and micro robot system;
(ii) cluster technology;
(iii) self-assembly robot;
(iv) molecular robot;
(v) robot compiler;
(vi)Smart dust.
(11) brain-computer interface:
(i) neural control interface;
(ii) consciousness-machine interface;
(iii) direct neural interface;
(iv) brain-computer interface.
(12) hypersonic aerodynamics:
(i) flight control algorithm;
(ii)Propulsion technology;
(iii) thermal protection system;
(iv) special materials (for structures, sensors, etc.).
(13) Advanced materials:
(i) adaptive camouflage;
(ii) functional textiles (such as advanced fiber and fabric technology);
(iii) biomaterials.
(14) Advanced monitoring technology: such as face printing and voiceprint technology.
Not only that, the bill also requires the State Department to stop issuing visas to students and exchange visiting scholars for personnel associated with the Chinese military. In addition, the United States has made a request.
Similar measures have been taken by Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom.
I wonder how the current prime minister of Australia, who called the United States a friend some time ago and China as a client, will choose?
But in any case, the result of the trade war may be a heavy blow to Chinese students abroad!
Many of the councillor involved in the drafting of the bill are parliament "hardliners", including senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa, senator Tom Corton of Arkansas, senator Tade Cruz, Texas, and so on.
The news has also been exposed in many media outlets in the United States:
In fact, this is not the first time the United States has proposed restrictions on visas for Chinese students; this time it is just a refinement of the previous statement, which was less than a year ago.
In 2018, similar measures emerged.
This fact was exposed in the Chinese version of, The British Broadcasting Corporation in October 2018:
White House hawkish officials, represented by White House aide Stephen Hans Muller (Stephen Miller), suggested to President Trump in the first quarter of 2018 to stop issuing student visas to people of Chinese nationality.
Moreover, the United States has been gradually tightening the issuance of visas for Chinese students. As of September 30, 2017, the United States had issued 394000 F / 1 student visas, according to data from the State Department. It was down 17 percent from a year earlier and 40 percent from its peak in 2015, with the number of visas granted to Chinese students down 24 percent.
In addition, government said that since June 11, 2018, some Chinese citizen visas have been gradually shortened, especially when Chinese and Russians come to the United States to study STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) and other science and engineering majors. If Chinese students study in robotics, aviation and high-tech manufacturing, their visas will be limited to one year.
In this news, there is a key point that we cannot ignore. The United States said it hoped that "Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom should do the same."
It is undeniable that these are allies of the United States, especially Australia, as the world`s second largest country to study abroad, a large number of Chinese students enter Australia every year.
So will Australia follow the advice of the United States to limit the number of foreign students?
Australian Society: "the number of Foreign students should be limited"
Although the study abroad industry is one of the current pillar industries in Australia, which can contribute tens of billions of Australian dollars in economic value every year, many experts in Australian society have issued a letter calling for: the number of foreign students should be limited!
Dr. Bob Birrell, a population research institute at Think Tank, Australia, for example, has published an article attacking Australian students for extending their stay in Australia by manipulating the visa system.
Dr. Bob said foreign students manipulate visas in a way that changes from student visas to graduate work visas, then to tourist visas, and then to work vacation visas, which is a circular visa path.
It is in this way that many people flock to major Australian cities, especially Sydney and Melbourne, to achieve the goal of being stranded in Australia, resulting in a heavy burden on the local infrastructure and a surge in the population. House prices and prices are soaring.
According to Think Tank, the number of international students was only 278000 in fiscal year 2010. by fiscal year 2016, the number of foreign students had risen to 374000, an increase of nearly 100000.
Because study visas have 20 hours of legal working hours a week, Dr. Bob said, because of this problem, Australia`s entry-level labor market has become very chaotic, and international students have lowered the average salary standard. The minimum salary treatment that locals could have enjoyed has become a bubble.
Employers prefer to hire cheap labour rather than a well-paid full-time employee.
Visas, whether permanent residence or study abroad, are the focus of political differences in Australia at present.
The declining number of permanent residents represents an attitude of the ruling party, which also reflects the voice of the private sector and some politicians, especially the voice of the Australian people to limit the number of visas. People say Australia is crowded enough to recruit so many immigrants.
There is also a call that government is unclear about the current division of work visas, which prevents many employers from hiring enough employees, which will also indirectly affect the development of businesses and the level of economic in society as a whole.
In any case, there is a stronger call for restrictions on immigration, and the internal minister has also said it needs to deal more strictly with immigration audits.
In fact, Australian universities are already doing so in silence.
Australian universities cancel language classes and the threshold for admission has skyrocketed
In March 2019, two months ago, ANU, Australia`s top university, said it had begun to limit the number of foreign students.
First, Schmitt, president of the National University, said in an interview that the number of foreign students at the National University is now saturated and is unable to accept more international students.
Schools will invest more educational resources to improve teaching quality and scientific research and development.
President Schmitt believes that only when the redistribution of educational resources is conducive to national universities to improve their international academic ranking, it is good for the reputation and competitiveness of the school.
He specifically cites the example of Harvard, which has a very limited number of students this year and the entire college under control, proving that controlling the number of people is helpful in improving the quality of education.
Second, in just a month`s time to April, ANU paid the above statement to action.
That month, the Australian National University issued the latest application policy, abolishing the language class setting, applying to the national university, must meet the IELTS score.
From this point of view, it is also basically in line with the previous national university declared to control the number of foreign students policy. In addition to having to meet IELTS scores, there are the following adjustments to apply to the national university, especially as admission requirements have been raised a lot, and the biggest change is that it will take the form of merit-based admissions.
In particular, applying for this change in seven semesters will allow national universities to recruit many international students with higher scores in advance. It can be said that the national universities have indeed begun to take the elite route:
This means that it is not enough to meet the average score requirement in the future. ANU will adopt the way of selecting excellence to carry out three rounds of knockout system, and it will also need to make the final offer. by comparing the language scores.
Other Australian universities have followed suit:
The University of Melbourne, which ranks first in Australian education, has also revised its latest admission score line. One of the most obvious majors is Master of Information Systems, in order to ensure the excellence of students, Mohist University announced that 2020 above the professional graduate enrollment score line, officially raised!
First of all, the top nine schools in China, including colleges:Tsinghua, North University, Zhejiang University, Nanjing University, Fudan, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Xi`an Jiaotong University, China University of Science and Technology, Harbin University of Technology.
The second adjustment, for 985 institutions: all 985 students who want to apply for a graduate major at the University of Melbourne must meet an average score of 85 or more to qualify.
The third adjustment, for 211 institutions: all 211 students who want to apply for a graduate major at the University of Melbourne must meet an average score of 90 or more to qualify.
In Tsinghua University and other colleges and universities, the average score of 80 points, how difficult will be, the scariest, 211 colleges and universities want to apply for Mohda, the average score of more than 90.
Worst of all, if the school does not belong to the above three kinds of colleges and universities. There is no chance of applying for Mo Da at all. Even if you score on average, you are not qualified.
Other Australian universities, such as the University of Sydney`s business school, have also been admitted, UNSW has raised some discipline requirements, and so on, is no longer able to search. The above requirements are aimed at applicants for Chinese universities, not other countries.
To be sure, raising the admission threshold is a positively impact on the quality of foreign students in Australian universities, but overall, Australian academic circles still maintain a semi-supportive attitude towards limiting the number of foreign students. Restricting Chinese students to go abroad may be a trend.
Finally, I just want to say: it is not easy to study abroad, and stay and cherish, the trade war has been directly operated on foreign students, the United States is in a hurry, Australia follow, some major we may be the last group of foreign students?
