Why are we letting 600,000 Chinese students into our universities? It was 300 and change. Laura Ingraham asked President Trump about this and he said, oh, you need to do business with China. It seemed like some sort of a deal had been cut where we gave them a bone of allowing double their students. Nobody wants this. No, it's not. The President's view is we don't want to create an unnecessarily antagonistic relationship with China. (37:29–37:35)
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Suggests a deal was made to double the number of Chinese students allowed in the U.S.
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