Trump’s Unexpected Play: The Chinese Student Shockwave This firestorm was sparked by a recent article from Neal McCluskey and Kayla Susalla, published through the Cato Institute, which offered a glowing economic case for Trump's surprise announcement. The move? Allowing 600,000 Chinese students to study at U.S. universities — a figure more than double the current 270,000 already here. According to their analysis, this could inject a $32.1 billion financial surge into America’s struggling higher education sector. They argue the students would be paying out-of-pocket — full tuition, room, board, and living expenses. In other words, a foreign infusion of cash into a system crumbling under its own ideological and financial weight. Cato’s team breaks down the numbers: approximately $63K per…
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