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How Student Visa Crackdowns Undercut US Soft Power

June 2, 2025 Lawrence J. Haas The National Interest

With the State Department’s new vows to halt visa interviews for all foreign students until it beefs up its social media screening and to “aggressively revoke” the visas of Chinese students, the United States is heading down a precarious path. By doing so, it risks ceding its longstanding global advantages in terms of “soft power.”