Washington's impending revocation of visas for select PRC students, particularly those in strategically salient STEM disciplines or with imputed affiliations to the CCP, has engendered profound precarity within the Chinese academic diaspora in the US; this démarche, protested vehemently by Beijing as discriminatory and unreasonable, threatens to further exacerbate already fraught Sino-American relations, incentivising affected students to explore alternative academic pathways in jurisdictions such as Hong Kong, which are actively courting this displaced talent pool.