Donald Trump’s latest comments about allowing hundreds of thousands of Chinese international students into the United States have drawn criticism from some of the most outspoken members of the Republican Party.

Ahead of his meeting with South Korean President Lee Jae-myung at the White House on Monday, Trump told reporters that he plans to allow 600,000 Chinese students into the country — a figure more than double the number in the United States now.

It’s a sharp departure from an announcement Secretary of State Marco Rubio made in May, when he promised the United States would “aggressively revoke” visas for Chinese students and add more scrutiny to all future visa applications from China.

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[–] 61 points 11 months ago (5 children)

Lol conservatives circle racist logic. White people are genetically superior, but are also oppressed. White people are the smartest, but Asians are the best at math and computers. White people are the strongest, but black people just are naturally gifted at sports. White people are the reason we have great things like the engine, but Jews control everything. White people are just harder workers, but Hispanic people need to be the ones doing the hard jobs. Make it make sense Republicans.

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  • [–] 39 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    That's just fascism. The enemy is strong and weak at the same time, depending on what the fascists need at that moment.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    I honestly would respect them more if they just said it out loud. It's like dealing with a five year old when you catch them in a lie but they just refuse to admit it. Grow a pair and stand ten toes down on your beliefs. But they won't. Cowards.

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  • [–] 16 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    I'll have you know I'm a black person who is terrible at sports thank you.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    "conservatives" are capitalist handlers that use whichever line brings them the most money at the time. As long as they have good doggies who lap up what they are fed and lie down when told they can target and support Hispanics while profiting off cheap and powerless labor.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago

    I would preface that with "conservative elites" are the ones focused on money alone. Most conservatives make choices against their own welfare in exchange for fear and rage. They get to be the "winner" in some ideological game and that's enough for them.

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  • [–] 55 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    🎵🎶 TACO's modern life (TACO's modern life) 🎶🎵

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  • [–] 15 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Don't drag Rocko into this, he doesn't deserve that.

    Fun fact, that show is now 32 years old, and the final season aired 29 years ago. TIL Netflix made a Rocko's Modern Life special in 2019.

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  • [–] 48 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    We won't educate our own students, and build America's own brain trust, but we'll double the number of Chinese students whose government pays to educate them in America, in order to make them more competitive with us.

    We are training our own competition, and hamstringing our own defense.

    Make America Ignorant Again.

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  • [–] 8 points 11 months ago (11 children)

    I mean, we won't educate the Chinese exchange students either. The US education system is increasingly diploma mills and sinecures for friends of public officials.

    Trump's doing the "$5M Visa" gambit. He thinks he can announce "We're going to invite so many students! The best students!" and then slide in a mechanism for channeling kickback into his pocket. But no sane student is going to take him up on this deal. And no quality school is going to want students coming through such a program.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Go blame your states, for not teaching properly. Even young kids now a days are fucking glued on to their tablets… always using it for entertainment purposes.

    My nephew who’s 9 visits us a lot, and he’s glued to his iPad.. even when he’s trying to pick up a chair and bring it somewhere else. It’s disgusting.

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago

    That sounds like a parent issue not so much a state issue. I guess you could argue that maybe both the kids parents are working too much and are too tired to parent… which could be considered a state issue.

    Anyone know why we keep building schools instead of hiring teachers? I swear every school near me has gotten replaced but the class size is 30 to 1.

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  • [–] 41 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    China figured out that the orange cancer is a cheap whore and paid for it...

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  • [–] 34 points 11 months ago

    Dementia and Tacos. What a dynamite combination

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  • [+] 26 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)
    [–] 25 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    But his administration is gutting education. How many students are really going to want to study here. Heck you could be deported the very next day with flip-flop trump in control

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  • [–] 18 points 11 months ago*

    hates china

    hates immigrants

    wants chinese immigrants

    🤔

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  • [–] 17 points 11 months ago (1 child)
    [–] 13 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    Head scratching. That doesn’t even align with the conservative agenda. Which university is filling Trumps pocket for him to make this decision?

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  • [–] 11 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    this is because trump is not a conservative, he’s a capitalist. like all republicans and democrats. they will phase in an out of various agendas if it means more profit.

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  • [–] 11 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Hardly a capitalist. I know in practice capitalism rigs the system for the ultra rich but theoretically it's supposed to be free market. He's a perfect example of a kleptocrat.

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Don't get me wrong, Trump is 1000% a corrupt grifter who's never seen a bribe he didn't take. But I think there's more (and less) to it than that. If you look at his pattern of making decisions based on whatever he saw on Fox News most recently, it's increasingly clear that he's just fucking losing it and becoming dangerously suggestible as his dementia progresses. Any other leader with access to have a one-on-one discussion with him plays him like a damn fiddle.

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  • [–] 11 points 11 months ago

    His brain is melting

    What a world!

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  • [–] 10 points 11 months ago

    Trump probably thinks more along the lines of 600,000 new workers he can abuse ala FoxConn style. A.k.a. let's import 600k workers who won't complain about shit work conditions and little pay, or even payment in company dollars that can only be used in the company store

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  • [–] 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 child)

    https://foreignpolicy.com/2008/02/15/mao-offered-kissinger-10-million-chinese-women/

    Mao offered Kissinger 10 million Chinese women

    SAToday‘s "OnDeadline" blog finds some choice morsels from newly released transcripts of Henry Kissinger’s 1973 meeting with Mao:

    You know, China is a very poor country," Mao is quoted as saying during the exchange. "We don’t have much. What we have in excess is women. So if you want them we can give a few of those to you, some tens of thousands." The Chinese leader drew laughter when he returned to the proposition a few minutes later. "Do you want our Chinese women? We can give you 10 million." he said, adding: "We have too many women … They give birth to children and our children are too many."

    It’s not clear whether Mao is at all serious — he was a pretty crazy dude, after all — but Kissinger’s response is precious:

    It is such a novel proposition, we will have to study it.

    EDIT: I'd also add that I was fairly sure that there was a second quote from some other diplomatic exchange in which someone, I thought Mao, offered 1 million Chinese people (not specifically women), with the phrasing something like "What is it that you want? Is it people? We can provide 1 million people", but I guess it's possible that I'm just misremembering some reference to the above.

    considers

    Might have been me accurately remembering Kissinger mis-remembering too, since I've read some of his material on diplomacy with China, and the source material wouldn't have been declassified at the time the books were written, so I assume that he wouldn't be able to directly use it in writing his books.

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    [–] 7 points 11 months ago

    I guess China has something on trump. At least they operate the same way as trump.

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago

    What makes him think 600,000 Asian students would want to come here?

    Where they'll be abused, mistreated, potentially kidnapped and trafficked because some fat powertripping chud can't distinguish between Asian and South American?

    The education is garbage. Expensive garbage. And getting shittier all the time.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago

    deep sigh of asian relief as I wonder if we don't need to sell our house a a little longer

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago*

    His followers will forget how they got here when he deports them a nlfew months later

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    Well, this is yet another unexpected change from the overly emotional child in the white house.

    I'm sure he was bribed or there is some sort of fraud related to this decision.

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