Washington's impending revocation of visas for select PRC students, particularly those engaged in strategically sensitive disciplines or exhibiting affiliations with the CCP, precipitates a climate of pronounced precarity for those pursuing academic endeavours within the US, a demographic constituting a substantial cohort (over 270,000 in 2023-2024) of the international student body; Beijing has vociferously denounced the measure as "unjustifiable" and "discriminatory," further exacerbating the already tenuous Sino-American rapport, prompting some to seek alternative educational venues, with Hong Kong and other nations extending solicitations to potentially displaced scholars.