A group of prominent Chinese-Americans known as the Committee of 100 has condemned a bill that proposes to ban Chinese nationals from obtaining all main classes of student visas to the US as “not just exclusionary but self-defeating”.
The non-profit, non-partisan organisation’s chairman Gary Locke, who was Washington’s ambassador to China from 2011 to 2014, said in a statement on Monday that the US “has always thrived by welcoming the brightest minds from around the world”.