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The U.S. announced plans to scrutinize and revoke student visas for students with ties to the Chinese Communist Party or whose studies are in critical fields, but appears to have reconsidered. The decision and apparent about-face could have a wide-ranging impact on both nations. LAW Ho Ming/Getty Images

Trump administration’s conflicting messages on Chinese student visas reflect complex US‑China relations

The Trump administration’s threat to revoke visas of some Chinese students isn’t the first time the US has erected barriers to its higher education system.
The bluegrass group Della Mae plays at an orphanage in Kyrgyzstan on its State Department-sponsored American Music Abroad tour in 2012. Photo: Paul Rockower

The hidden power of cultural exchanges in countering propaganda and fostering international goodwill

As the fate of US cultural exchange programs is debated, one foreign policy historian recounts how such programs have made it ‘harder to hate people you really know.’
Missionary nuns in a Congolese military camp in 1960. AP Photo/Horst Faas

What is the Great Commission and why is it so controversial?

The term refers to passages in the Christian gospels, in which Jesus urges his apostles to make ‘disciples of all nations.’ Later, it became a prime motivator of missionary efforts.

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