1 in 3 student visa applications by foreign students wanting to study in the US were denied last year. The denial rate was 61% for Indians, the largest source of international students. Surprisingly, the denial rate for Chinese was below the average at 18%
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I wonder too how impactful all the surprisingly successful CCP-friendly influencers have been in recent years. I feel like every time I get on TikTok these days, there's a ton of "WOW! Western media is lying to you! China is living in 2050!" Plus how comparatively bad US politics looks these days...
The share of Americans with an unfavorable view toward China shot up from 47% to 83% between 2017 and 2023. But now that trend is reversing, down to 71% now. www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
You’d think expensive oil would make our government focus on solar and wind energy, you would of course be wrong
