US universities were limiting Chinese students’ access given Security Concerns
Kurt Campbell, the deputy secretary of state, claimed that not many Americans were pursuing degrees in mathematics, science, technology, and engineering. He suggested that rather than china, the US should be enticing more foreign students to study in such subjects, especially from India, which is becoming a more significant US security ally.
Campbell told the Council on Foreign Relations think tank, "I would like to see more Chinese students coming to the US to study humanities and social sciences, not particle physics."
In response to criticism that it encouraged racial profiling of Asian Americans, the Biden administration terminated the china Initiative, which the trump administration had formed to counter Chinese espionage and intellectual property theft. Campbell was questioned about this.
"I do think it is possible to curtail and to limit certain kinds of access, and we have seen that generally, particularly in technological programmes across the US," he stated.
According to Campbell, some people had stated that china was the only country that could make up for the lack of science students.
"I believe that the largest increase that we need to see going forward would be much larger numbers of indian students that come to study in American universities on a range of technology and other fields," he stated.
In addition, Campbell noted that international entrepreneurs and philanthropists were hesitant to make long-term commitments in china because of worries about their personal safety. "It really has been china that has made it difficult for the kinds of activities that we would like to see sustaining," Campbell said.