Chinese international students are still being denied visas under a proclamation issued by Donald Trump during his tenure as president.

Despite the closures of all but 17 Confucius Institutes in the United States, republican lawmakers and conservatives are claiming that there is a ‘residual’ Chinese influence in US colleges.

A new raft of policies has been announced by the US Departments of State and Homeland Security to attract international STEM scholars, students, researchers and experts.