WASHINGTON: The United States has revoked visas for over 1,000 Chinese nationals under a May 29 Presidential proclamation to suspend entry from China of researchers and students deemed security risks, according to a State Department spokeswoman.
According to the Acting Head of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Chad Wolf, Washington was blocking visas “for certain Chinese graduate students and researchers with ties to China’s military fusion strategy to prevent them from stealing and otherwise appropriating sensitive research.”
Wolf reiterated the U.S. charges of unjust business practices and industrial espionage by China.
Wolf further stated that the US was also “preventing goods produced from slave labor from entering our markets, demanding that China respect the inherent dignity of each human being,” an apparent reference to alleged abuses of Muslims in China’s Xinjiang region.
(With inputs from Agencies)
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