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Robert Delaney

China’s government on Wednesday issued two warnings to its citizens about travel to the United States, noting a deterioration in bilateral relations as the two countries slap hefty tariffs on each other’s imports.
“Due to the deterioration of Sino-US economic and trade relations and the domestic security situation in the United States, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism reminds Chinese tourists to fully assess the risks of travelling to the United States and travel with caution,” the ministry said.
The warning came shortly after Beijing announced it would impose additional 50 per cent tariffs on all American imports in response to a similar level of tariff increases on its goods from US President Donald Trump.
The tit-for-tat trade actions threaten to undo the normalised economic relations that has prevailed between the world’s two biggest economies for decades.
Beijing’s Ministry of Education issued a separate warning, citing a bill making its way through Ohio’s statehouse that contains “negative provisions related to China”.


Passed by the midwestern US state’s House of Representatives last month, the bill “contains negative provisions related to China and imposes restrictions on educational exchanges and cooperation between Chinese and American universities”.
“The Ministry of Education reminds all overseas students to conduct safety risk assessments … when choosing to study in relevant states in the United States in the near future,” the notice added.
The Ohio bill, which mostly targets diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives in the state’s publicly funded universities, also references China in its order to clamp down on “foreign influence”.
A statement about the bill, issued by Ohio House Republicans after passage in their chamber, listed the main changes that the bill would trigger if passed by the state’s Senate and signed by Governor Mike DeWine, a Republican.
The bill, they said, would “enforce foreign influence restrictions: safeguards Ohio’s institutions from interference and influence by the People’s Republic of China”.
Wednesday’s warning, together with efforts by US lawmakers to confront alleged risks posed by Chinese students, run counter to an effort that former US president Joe Biden’s administration had agreed to with Chinese President Xi Jinping to bolster two-way academic exchange in 2023.
Federal lawmakers have also targeted Chinese students in recent years, as they attempt to curb the flow of students from the country to the US over national security concerns.
In one of the most recent moves, the chair of a US House committee sent letters to six American universities, including Stanford and Carnegie Mellon, requesting information about their policies on Chinese nationals.
The letters asked the universities’ presidents to provide detailed information about their entire Chinese student populations by April 1, including the names of the universities the students previously attended, their sources of tuition and the types of research and university programmes they participate in.
These and other legislative efforts appear to have had a chilling effect on the goals outlined by Biden and Xi.
India overtook China as the top source for international students in the US last year, with some 331,602 Indians studying in the US during the 2023-24 school year, compared with 277,398 Chinese, according to an annual survey by the Institute of International Education published in November.
Chinese students had been the largest group of foreign students in the US since the 2009-10 school year, but their numbers have steadily declined from 2019-20 onwards. That academic year, there were 372,532 Chinese studying in the US.


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Tourism ministry advises travellers to ‘assess risks’ while education ministry tells students to ‘conduct risk safety assessments’


Tourism ministry advises travellers to ‘assess risks’ while education ministry tells students to ‘conduct risk safety assessments’.


China issues 2 warnings about US travel to its citizens, urging ‘caution’

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Tourism ministry advises travellers to ‘assess risks’ while education ministry tells students to ‘conduct risk safety assessments’