Trump: "It's good to get along with nuclear-powered countries"

Allowing Chinese students to study in the United States is "the right thing to do", because it's good to maintain good relations with other countries, according to US President Donald Trump, who declared this on Friday. "I have a very good relationship with [Chinese] President Xi [Jinping]. I think it's very insulting to a country to tell them you're not going to accept their students, and they probably have 300,000 - 600,000 in two years-, but let's say they have between 300,000 and 350,000 students [in the U.S.]", he stated to The Daily Caller.

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He also said that the arrival of students to national universities favors the American system, since "China is paying a lot of money". "I think what we are doing is the right thing. It's good to get along with countries, it's not bad, especially, you know, with nuclear-powered countries," the president indicated. Last May, the U.S. Government announced plans to revoke visas for Chinese students as part of its policy of mass deportations and its offensive against the prestigious Harvard University. The measure will include "those [students] with ties to the Chinese Communist Party or who study in critical fields". On August 25, Trump changed course after conversations with the Chinese side, and promised to allow 600,000 Chinese to study in his country. For his part, the spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Asian country, Guo Jiakun, asserted during a press conference last Wednesday that Beijing hopes "that the United States will fulfill President Trump's commitment to welcome Chinese students who wish to study in the country" and "stop harassing, interrogating or repatriating them without foundation and seriously protect their legitimate and legal rights and interests."