There’s more than one way to skin the cat, whether it be an Academia cat, a trade cat, or a nat-sec cat. And this method will be difficult to challenge in court.
Late yesterday, Marco Rubio announced that the State Department would go for the feline-defurring hat trick. The State Department will launch a review of all student-visa application and grants for students from China and will “aggressively revoke” — a quote — any connected to the Chinese Communist Party or studying in “critical fields.” The move may provide Donald Trump some leverage in trade talks after a loss yesterday at the Court of International Trade, but that hardly appears to be Rubio’s only goal:
Last year, House Republicans issued a report warning that hundreds of millions of dollars in defense funding was going to research partnerships linked to the Chinese government, providing…
