NO USE USA!

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00:03 Report / Andrew Zi-Qi Fang & Alex Footman
00:15 Fangzhou Jiang / Chinese Harvard student
00:51 Hu /Taiwanese Harvard student
01:58 Fangzhou Jiang / Chinese Harvard student

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Harvard is home to over seven thousand international students - more than a quarter of the student body. Over a thousand of them come from China - including Fangzhou Jiang, who is hoping to graduate next June.
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((SOT Fangzhou Jiang, Chinese Harvard student))
“My group chats on WhatsApp and WeChat were inundated with messages. Our immediate concern was whether we should leave U.S. soil right away.”
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The Trump administration ban wouldn't allow newly admitted students outside the US to apply for student visas, and would force Harvard's foreign students to transfer. After Harvard filed a lawsuit, a federal judge issued a temporary hold. But international students, like PhD candidate Hu from Taiwan, are still bracing for the worst.
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((SOT Hu, Taiwanese Harvard student))
"I don’t want to leave right before my dissertation is finished. That would make me feel stuck in the middle of something. I would regret it my whole life. My lab colleague is also a foreign student. She is currently an assistant and is scheduled to join the lab as a PhD student next year. We were very anxious and didn’t know what to do.”
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The Trump administration has levied a number of claims against Harvard: including refusing to hand over data on international students, maintaining ties with China's Communist Party, training members of a paramilitary group complicit in China's persecution of the Uyghur minority; and using Pentagon funding to partner with Chinese universities tied to military advancements.
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Harvard has denied some of the claims and says the government is retaliating against it for refusing to give up academic independence. Both Hu and Fangzhou agree that Harvard needs to stick to its principles and stand up to the White House - and set an example for other universities across the US.
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((SOT Fangzhou Jiang, Chinese Harvard student))
“Harvard is an institution with a history spanning more than 400 years. It has endured multiple administrations, policies, and even wars. In the long run, Harvard will prevail. If Harvard were to give up, I believe other schools wouldn’t have the courage to fight against the government.”

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