US universities facing sharp fall in Chinese students

In the Chinese movie American Dreams in China, three young men in the 1980s opened a language school to prepare Chinese students for TOEFL, a test for nonnative English speakers who wish to enroll in English-speaking universities. The school helped generations of Chinese students to go to study in the US.

Four decades later, the dream seems to be fading in the minds of many Chinese students.

A recent report by The Wall Street Journal said that during the first half of 2022, US student visas issued to Chinese nationals dropped more than 50 percent compared with pre-pandemic levels.