“We need to encourage and facilitate travels and people-to-people exchanges, rather than erect barriers,” Feng added.
“We need to promote win-win cooperation, make the list of cooperation longer … rather than seek decoupling and turn back the will of history.”
A new US Department of Homeland Security proposed rule on Wednesday sought to cap mainland Chinese journalists’ stays in the US at 90 days, with a 240-day limit for media from the special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macau, and other countries. Visa holders may apply for extensions.
For all international students and scholars on F and J visas, the visa periods would be no longer than four years, the proposed rule said, adding that the significant increase in entries on F, J and I visas posed “a challenge to the department’s ability to monitor and oversee these non-immigrants while they are in the US”.
