But there’s another burning question Americans should be asking: What is the United States of America going to do about China now? But after the president’s speech, there’s no question there should be major reductions in Chinese student visas — and fast. In August 2025, President Trump announced that the United States would accept up to 600,000 Chinese students. Trump's defense of Chinese visas was a reversal of the position Secretary of State Marco Rubio had articulated just months earlier. Rubio said in May 2025 that he would revoke Chinese visas held by people with connections to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), especially those "studying in critical fields."