Thursday, August 9, 2018

The Idiot in Chief

Did Trump Call Most Chinese Students Spies?
(Inside Higher Ed)
Politico reports that the president called "almost every student" from China a spy.
By Elizabeth Redden; August 9, 2018
     President Trump characterized the vast majority of Chinese students in the U.S. as spies during a dinner Tuesday night with CEOs at his private golf club in New Jersey, according to a report in Politico.
     According to the report, which quoted an unnamed attendee:
At one point during the dinner, Trump noted of an unnamed country that the attendee said was clearly China, “almost every student that comes over to this country is a spy.”
     The White House declined Politico’s request for comment. An account of the dinner from CNN is much more mild, noting that during the dinner "Trump expressed concern that some foreign students were acting as foreign agents, particularly from China, according to one of the attendees."
     There are more than 350,000 Chinese students studying at U.S. universities — the largest group of international students by far — and Chinese students earned about 10 percent of all doctorates awarded by American universities in 2016….

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