近段时间，受疫情和特朗普政府对华政策的双重影响，在美中国留学生“噩耗”不断。 8月26日，美国一大学下达“驱逐令”，要求受中国国家留学基金委员会（CSC）资助的公派访问学者和留学生在一个月内离境。 一封美国北得克萨斯大学的官方邮件内容显示，该校决定于8月26日中止受中国国家留学基金委员会资助的公派访问学生学者的学习资格。不仅如此，学校还剥夺了他们继续使用学校服务器、电子邮箱等学习资料的权利，仅允许返校取回个人物品。 Local media outlets reported that the UNT has ended its relationship with the Chinese Scholarship Council (CSC) and required the students who received funding from the CSC to leave the country within a month. The university on August 26 revoked visas of the visiting scholars. It's reported that the university sent emails to the scholars on August 26, notifying them that their access to school resources, including emails, servers and other materials, had been terminated. In addition, these students were not allowed to visit the campus unaccompanied. 由于事发突然，毫无准备的中国学者们陷入艰难处境，不仅已经开展了一半的学业被迫腰斩，在国际航班受疫情影响锐减的背景下，如何在一个月内顺利回国也是不小的难题。 对于学校没有提前通知且无法给出任何解释的做法，留学生群体愤懑不已，他们在美国请愿网站上提出抗议，连该校的教职工也站出来替他们“打抱不平”。 其中一位直接参与了该校 CSC 项目的教授留言称，学校这一决定对中国访问学者 " 不公平 "，并直言这是一个 " 不必要的、突然且生硬的政策 "。 多名校友在社交平台表示对学校这一决定感到“失望”。
The decision drew the ire of Chinese students studying at the UNT as they're left less than one month to buy plane tickets and leave the country. During the pandemic, a plane ticket from the U.S. to China is expensive, if available at all. Additionally, their study and life will be severely disrupted by the abrupt move. So far, the UNT has not given any specific reason why it expelled the students sponsored by the CSC. One of its spokesperson told Denton Record-Chronicle, a local news outlet, that "UNT continues to welcome visiting scholars from around the world, including China," which was criticized by a UNT student as "laudable-sounding words." Chinese students and scholars at the University of North Texas have launched an online petition, calling on the university to rescind the move. 当地时间31日，该校在其官方社交媒体账号上作出回应，但对于此次驱逐中国公派访问学者的原因仍旧避而不谈，仅表示除受CSC资助的15名中国学者外，其余已经登记入学的学生不会受到影响。同时校方强调，“北得克萨斯州大学继续欢迎来自全世界的学者，包括中国的”。 在校方如此“心口不一”的声明下方，有网友讽刺地留言称，这难道就是贵校欢迎中国学生的方式吗？ 中国外交部发言人华春莹也就此事表态。她表示，一段时间以来，美国国内的一些极端的反华势力出于个人的政治私利和打压遏制中国发展的战略需求，处心积虑编造了无数的谎言，对中国留学人员进行污名化和妖魔化，以莫须有的罪名，甚至动用司法力量恶意打压中国在美留学生。 “我不知道在这样的情况下，还有多少的中国家长们放心把自己的孩子送到美国去读书。开放、包容、多元，本来是美国建国之本、立国之基，但是今天我们所看到的美国已经完全不同，到处充斥着封闭、仇恨、排外。开放带来进步，封闭必然落后，这是深刻的历史教训”，华春莹说。 Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying on Tuesday criticized the decision made by the University of North Texas (UNT) to expel 15 Chinese students, calling the move, if confirmed true, another example of the U.S. sabotage of people-to-people exchanges between the two countries. "However, out of selfish gains and political motives, some extremists, anti-China forces have been suppressing China's strategic need of development, making numerous lies to stigmatize and demonize Chinese students, and even oppressing Chinese students in the U.S. by abusing judicial power under baseless pretexts," said Hua, adding many Chinese parents, under such circumstances, were skeptical of sending their children to study in the U.S.. 不少人认为，该禁令可能来自特朗普的授意，这与数月以来特朗普政府对中国留学生“不遗余力”的打压密不可分。 早在五月份，美国国务院就要求禁止“与中国军方有关”，持F签（学生签证）和J签（访问学者签证）的中国留学生和学者入境，随后，特朗普试图在7月份通过收紧签证政策来限制留学生赴美学习。 “驱逐令“颁布不久，美国国务卿蓬佩奥称特朗普正在慎重考虑限制中国学生赴美。蓬佩奥并未透露更多细节，但他表示特朗普将会在未来几周或数月内采取行动。 推荐阅读：美对中国留学生发布签证禁令，他们却打开了大门……改了！美国修改针对留学生的签证新政 仅一周！美国政府撤回国际生签证“新规”