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Trump announces intention to increase Chinese student numbers

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On Monday, US President Donald Trump said he would allow some 600,000 Chinese students to study in the US.

That’s more than twice the number of Chinese students currently on American campuses.

Why that’s weird: Back in May, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that Washington would “aggress...