told Chinese President Xi Jinping<\/a> that \u201cwe\u2019re honored to have their students here.\u201d But he also added, \u201cNow, with that, we check and we\u2019re careful, we see who is there.\u201d<\/p>\nThe Chinese Embassy said it has received reports involving more than 10 Chinese students and scholars being interrogated, harassed and repatriated when entering the U.S.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe U.S. side has frequently carried out discriminatory, politically driven and selective law enforcement against Chinese students and scholars, inflicting physical and mental harm, financial losses, and disruptions to their careers,\u201d the Chinese Embassy said in a statement.<\/p>\n
They were repatriated under the pretext of \u201cso-called \u2018visa issues\u2019 or \u2018might endanger U.S. national security,\u2019\u201d the embassy said.<\/p>\n
The students and scholars were taken into small rooms for extended interrogation, repeatedly questioned on issues unrelated to their academic work, and forced to wait long hours in cold rooms without blankets or quilts, the embassy said. Some relied on aluminum foil to keep warm, and some were detained for more than 80 hours, it said.<\/p>\n
Such acts by the U.S. side \u201crun counter to the statements\u201d made by Trump, the embassy said, accusing some U.S. departments and law enforcement personnel of not \u201cfaithfully acting on the president\u2019s commitment.\u201d The White House didn\u2019t immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n
One Chinese student had no concerns as he headed to the US<\/p>\n
Gu told AP that he liked his Cornell experience so much that he applied for a master\u2019s program to study philosophy in the U.S.<\/p>\n
Despite reports of stricter policies by the Trump administration, Gu said he wasn\u2019t too worried, not even when he was first stopped and taken to a room for questioning by a customs officer after landing at George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston. His belongings were searched, and his electronics were taken away, he said.<\/p>\n
After the officer went through the devices, he started interrogating Gu, focusing on his ties to the Chinese Communist Party, Gu said.<\/p>\n
He said his parents are party members, but he has never joined, though he \u2014 like nearly all Chinese teens and young people \u2014 is a member of the party\u2019s youth arm, the Communist Youth League.<\/p>\n
The customs officer also grilled him on his connections to the governmental China Scholarship Council, which popped up in his chat history. Gu said it came up in his chats with his schoolmates, but he did not receive money from the Chinese government.<\/p>\n
Three rounds of interrogation lasted 10 hours, before Gu was told he was to be deported. No specific reason was given, he said, and the removal paperwork he provided to AP indicated inadequate documentation.<\/p>\n
By then, he had hardly slept for 40 hours. The waiting room where he was kept was lit around the clock, its room temperature set low.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was so nervous I was shaking, due to both being freezing cold and also the nerves,\u201d Gu said. \u201cSo many things were going through my head now that I was being deported. What should I do in the future?\u201d<\/p>\n
It would be another day before he was put on a flight. Now, Gu is considering appealing the decision, but that might take years and cost thousands of dollars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 The 22-year-old philosophy student from China did not expect any problems after his 29-hour flight…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386581,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[11410,3801,1395,7684,32,2266,4179,10680,12051,40,285,13216,15895,369,18767,49,978,659,10673,263,1773],"class_list":{"0":"post-386580","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-asia-pacific","9":"tag-beijing","10":"tag-china","11":"tag-china-government","12":"tag-donald-trump","13":"tag-education","14":"tag-general-news","15":"tag-government-and-politics","16":"tag-houston","17":"tag-immigration","18":"tag-politics","19":"tag-protests-and-demonstrations","20":"tag-race-and-ethnicity","21":"tag-texas","22":"tag-tx-state-wire","23":"tag-united-states","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-usa","26":"tag-washington-news","27":"tag-world-news","28":"tag-xi-jinping"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115121695208805219","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}