Petition Against Visa Restrictions on Chinese Students

Introduction

The below petition, signed by over 700 scholars and experts on China, is in response to the announcement by Secretary of State Marco Rubio that the U.S. would start “aggressively revoking” the visas of Chinese students, particularly those studying in critical fields and those with ties to the Communist Party. Secretary Rubio also stated that future visa applications from Chinese students seeking to study in the U.S. would be scrutinized more heavily. Though this petition is not a Georgetown Center for Asian Law (GCAL) initiative, several GCAL scholars have signed the letter, and we are proud to share it here.

The day before this letter was published, President Trump stated that “Chinese students are coming, no problem. It’s our honor to have them, frankly.” We welcome these remarks and look forward to the continuing presence of all who seek to learn from and contribute to America’s institutions of higher education. As of this writing, there has been no formal policy announcement from the State Department on this matter, which means that the petition’s call to formally pause in implementation, pending further review, remains relevant.

Petition

June 6, 2025

Dear Secretary Rubio:

We, the undersigned American scholars and experts on China, note with concern your recent announcement that the U.S. government will “aggressively revoke” the student visas of Chinese nationals, with a particular focus on “those with connections to the Chinese Communist Party or studying in critical fields.” We anticipate that this effort would have a direct negative impact on U.S. innovation and competitiveness, as well as undercut the long-term economic strength of the higher education sector in the United States. We therefore urge you to reconsider this move and to pause any implementation of the planned policy change pending further review, including consultation with key stakeholders both inside and outside the U.S. government.

The Chinese government has adopted a series of policies to establish itself as a leading technological and scientific power, including heavy investment in higher education and extensive efforts to attract talented scholars, researchers, and scientists from around the world. Robust federal support for research and development is indispensable if we want the United States to remain at the technological and scientific frontier. A broad effort to revoke and deny visas to students from China, by contrast, would directly undercut U.S. national security, innovation, and competitiveness. Such policies could enhance China’s innovation ecosystem by encouraging many U.S.-trained Chinese researchers to return to China and thereby strengthen the country’s talent pipeline. Since January, Beijing has intensified its efforts to recruit U.S.-based and global talent.

American universities serve as a key vehicle for attracting talented young people from across the United States and around the world, including from China. Chinese students make up the largest share of international undergraduates and second largest share of graduate students in this country. Chinese-national undergraduates bring in vital tuition revenue that helps fund American education, and most doctoral graduates stay and contribute to U.S. research and innovation. The first Trump administration already established restrictions on Chinese student visas in fields and from institutions with potential links to China’s military modernization. Further visa restrictions on this group risk being so broad as to become self-defeating.

International students in STEM fields often choose to stay in the United States after graduation, contributing to U.S. innovation and competitiveness in a number of different fields. According to one recent study, over three-quarters of international STEM PhD recipients from American universities remained in the United States after completing their degrees. The numbers are even higher for Chinese national PhD graduates, at roughly 90 percent.

The stay rates remain high in sub-fields that are crucial to American competitiveness and innovation. One 2020 analysis noted that more than 91 percent of Chinese PhDs in artificial intelligence remain in the country for at least five years. (They likely stay for longer than that, but the study was limited to that five-year window.) The same study noted that many international PhD graduates in AI — including both Chinese nationals and other foreign nationals — stay in the United States to work at top private sector employers engaged in cutting-edge research and development. In other words, leading U.S. AI companies rely on this pipeline, and their research and development — and, by extension, their overall competitiveness — will be weakened by any effort by the U.S. government to curtail it.

Higher education is America’s leading service export and Chinese students are among the largest consumers of this service. Their tuition dollars and other spending contributes significantly to the U.S. economy. A 2024 analysis by NAFSA: Association of International Educators showed that international students at colleges and universities across the country “contributed $43.8 billion to the U.S. economy during the 2023–2024 academic year, and supported more than 378,000 jobs.” The economic benefits of international student enrollments in American colleges and universities are widely shared nationwide, including among so-called red states and blue states.

Targeting Chinese students with meaningful “CCP connections” will be difficult to implement effectively. Virtually every PRC national has “CCP connections” — through their school principal (students), boss (workers), and residence (mayors and other local officials). And many CCP members, especially among the young, have joined for career advancement rather than political convictions, as surveys by American experts have shown.

Finally, revoking student visas and limiting the number of future visas granted to Chinese students will also undercut a key element of what is often referred to as U.S. “soft power.” When Chinese students come to the United States, they are exposed to the American democratic system and open media environment. They gain direct experience of life in a political system that robustly protects basic rights, including free expression, association, and assembly. Often for the first time, Chinese young people are given unfettered access to information about their home country. They also communicate such information to their family and friends. Either as part of their formal course of study, or on their own time, they can study the Chinese political system, including the Chinese Communist Party leadership, and they come to their own, more deeply informed, conclusions about that system. It has been well documented that experiences young Chinese people have in the United States can result in profound transformative effects on their lives and on people around them. Though difficult to quantify, this aspect of the Chinese student experience in America is also worthy of note, and it too is put at risk by the administration’s new visa policy.

For the above reasons, we, the undersigned, urge you to reconsider the proposed policy, and to delay its implementation pending further review and engagement with relevant stakeholders across the United States.

Sincerely yours,

Lang Adal, University of Pittsburgh

Kenneth Adams, Retired Faculty, University of Michigan

Christopher Agnew, University of Dayton

Alexander Akin, Bolerium Books

Claire Albright, University of Michigan Department of MCDB

Clark Alejandrino, Trinity College

Katherine Alexander, University of Colorado, Boulder

Douglas Allen, The University of Maine

Gene Ammarell, Ohio University

Achilleas Anastasopoulos, University of Michigan

Marnie Anderson, Smith College

James Anderson, UNC-Greensboro

Joel Andreas, Johns Hopkins University

Julia Andrews, Ohio State University

Yuen Yuen Ang Johns Hopkins University

Roberto Ang, NYU alumnus

J. Todd Arnedt, Michigan Medicine, University of Michigan

María Arquero de Alarcón, University of Michigan

Celeste Arrington, George Washington University

Michitake Aso, University at Albany, SUNY

Laura Balzano, University of Michigan

Traci Banjanin, University of Michigan

Charles Bankart, Citizen of Kansas

Tani Barlow, Rice University, Houston, Texas

Christine Bassis, University of Michigan

Emily Baum, University of California, Irvine

Jonathan Bean, Southern Illinois University Carbondale

Anthony Bedogne, University of Michigan

Roger Benjamin, Retired

Joanne Bernardi, University of Rochester

Lewis Bernstein, Independent Scholar

Michael Berry, UCLA

Roberta Bickford, Brown University

Linas Bieliauskas, Michigan Medicine

David Blaauw, Professor, University of Michigan

Keyana Blake, University of Michigan

Molly Blake, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities

John Blanco, UC San Diego

Peter Bol, Harvard University

Craig Borum, University of Michigan

Molly Bostrom, University of Minnesota Libraries

Gardner Bovingdon, Indiana University, Bloomington

Jonathan Brack, Northwestern University

Yomi Braester, University of Washington, Seattle

Kirsten Brenner, University of Michigan

Jeremy Bricker, University of Michigan

Emily Brignand, Civic Participant

Charlotte Brooks, Baruch College and CUNY Graduate Center

Antonia Brooks, University of Michigan

Michael Brose, Indiana University

Benjamin Brose, Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Michigan

Elizabeth Brotherton, Professor Emerita, SUNY New Paltz

Margarita Brovkina, University of Michigan

Megan Bryson, University of Tennessee

David Bulman, Johns Hopkins University

Vignesh Burugupalli, Georgia Tech

Corey Byrnes, Northwestern University

Ken Cadigan, University of Michigan, Professor and Chair of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology

Thomas Caffrey, DCU

Dawen Cai, University of Michigan

Liang Cai, University of Notre Dame

Sarah Calhoun, Carleton College

Robert Campany, Vanderbilt University

James Carter, Saint Joseph’s University

Joseph Carter, University of Michigan Dept. of MCDB

Caleb Carter, Kyushu University

Victoria Caudle, UCLA

Henry Chai, Carnegie Mellon University

Roy Chan, University of Oregon

Michael Chang, George Mason University

Sarah Chang, Miami University, Ohio

Angie Chau, University of Victoria

Ling Chen, Johns Hopkins University

Eugene Chen, University of Michigan

Yan Chen, University of Michigan

Xi Chen, Quinnipiac University

Tom Chen, Lehigh University

Jack Chen, University of Virginia

Qiufan Chen, Hong Kong Metropolitan University

Qiuyang Chen, University of Bristol, UK

Su Chen, UCLA

Mahdi Cheraghchi, University of Michigan

Kin Cheung, Moravian University

Paul Cheung, Committee of 100

Gabriel Chin, UC Davis School of Law

Tamara Chin, Brown University

Bob Ching, The Boston Consulting Group (retired)

Victoria Chiu, Yale University

Philip Chmielewski, Loyola Marymount University

Heekyoung Cho, University of Washington

Norah Chow, University of Kentucky

Tarryn Chun, University of Notre Dame

Ameilia Chung, University of Michigan

Michael Chung, Wheaton Chinese Alliance church

Hugh Clark, Ursinus College (retired)

Donald Clarke, George Washington University Law School

Cameron Clayton University of Virginia

Cathryn Clayton, University of Hawai’i

Robert Cliver, Cal Poly Humboldt

McLain Clutter, University of Michigan

Don Cohn, Translator

Xiaoping Cong, University of Houston

Frank Conlon, University of Washington

Alison Conner, University of Hawai’i at Manoa

Dawn Marie Cooper, University of Michigan GME Administrator

Abigail Coplin, Vassar College

Louise Cort, National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution

Matt Coss, Michigan State University

Pierre Coulombe, Deparment of Cell & Developmental Biology, Medical School

John Crank, Retired

Leigha Crout, DePaul University College of Law

David Crowe, Chapman University

Maura Elizabeth Cunningham, University of Michigan

Robert Curl, Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment

Daniel Curran, University of Pennsylvania

George Curtis, University of Michigan, Dept.of Psychiatry

Robert Dahlberg-Sears, The Ohio State University

Xiaoting Dai, University of Michigan

Frederick Damon, Emeritus, University of Virginia

Susan Darlington, Hampshire College

Brenna Davidson, Univeristy of Michigan, School of Information

Michael Davidson, University of California San Diego

Deborah Davis, Yale University

Michael Davis, Columbia University Weatherhead Institute

Katharine Davis, Association for Asian Studies

Madeline Dawson, University of Michigan

Hilde De Weerdt, KU Leuven (Belgium)

Leann Deckert, Georgetown University Law Center

Deborah Del Gais, Associate, Harvard University Asia Center, Cambridge, MA

Elizabeth Delgado, Molecular and Integrative Physiology

John Delury, John Cabot University

Lan Deng, University of Michigan

Kelly Denton-Borhaug, Moravian University

Morgan DeSantis, University of Michigan

Scott Dexter, University of Michigan

Jessica DiCarlo, University of Utah

Nakota DiFonzo, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa

Stephen Dodd, SOAS, University of London

Elliott Dorinda, Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies

Harris Doshay, UC San Diego, 21st Century China Center

Veronica Dristas, University of Pittsburgh

Cunming Duan, University of Michigan

Clayton Dube, University of Southern California

Ruth Dunnell, Kenyon College Emeriti Professor of Asian History

George Dutton, UCLA

Kathryn Eaton, University of Michigan

Nancy Eberhardt, Knox College

Kathryn Edgerton-Tarpley, San Diego State University

Rob Efird, Professor of Anthropology and Asian Studies, Seattle University

Manfred Elfstrom, University of British Columbia

Andrew Elmore, University of Miami

James Engel, University of Michigan Medical School

Mary S. Erbaugh, University of Oregon

Susan Erickson, University of Michigan-Dearborn

Steven Ericson, Dartmouth College

Charlotte Eubanks, Penn State

Jacob Eyferth, University of Chicago

Fa-ti Fan, Binghamton University, State University o New York

Sue Fan, UCLA Alum

Edward L. Farmer, Professor Emeritus, University of Minnesota

Mianmian Fei, The Ohio State University

James Feinerman, Jamer M. Morita Professor of Asian Legal Studies, Georgetown Law

David Feingold, Ophidian Research Institute

David Feng, Civic Participant

Jacob Feng, Fuller Theological Seminary

Jeffrey Fessler, University of Michigan

Stephen Field, Trinity University

Evgueni Filipov, University of Michigan

Cindy Finelli, University of Michigan

Thomas Fingar, Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, Stanford University

Kate Fitz Gibbon, Fitz Gibbon Law

Kati Fitzgerald, Otterbein University

Éric Florence, University of Liège

Anna-Alexandra Fodde-Reguer, University of Pennsylvania

Kenneth Fong, Kenson Ventures, LLC

Stephen Forrest, University of Michigan

Renny Franceschi, University of Michigan

Adam Frank, Retired

Mark Frazier The New School

Mark Fredrickson, University of Michigan, Dept. of Statistics

Sara Friedman, Indiana University

Diana Fu, University of Toronto

Masaaki Fukunaga, The Center for South Asian Studies, Gifu Women’s University, Gifu JAPAN

Amy Gadsden, University of Pennsylvania

Johann Gagnon-Bartsch, Associate Professor of Statistics

Mary Gallagher, University of Notre Dame

Benjamin Gallant, Harvard University

Almantas Galvanauskas, University of Michigan

Qin Gao, Columbia University

Chiara Gasparini, University of Oregon

Dr. Sujata Gaurkhede (Bansod), Central University of Karnataka

Margo Gebbie, Undergraduate Program in Biology

Anne Gedacht, Seton Hall University

Buck Gee, Committee of 100

Timothy George, University of Rhode Island, Emeritus

David Germano, University of Virginia

Aaron Gerow, Yale University

C. Patterson Giersch, Wellesley College

Tom Ginsburg, University of Chicago Law School

Carol Gisselquist, Retired Scholar

Sharon Glotzer, University of Michigan

Thomas Gold, University of California, Berkeley

Avery Goldstein, Professor Emeritus, University of Pennsylvania

Joshua Goldstein, University of Southern California

Janet Goodwin, NA

Joel Gordon, University of Arkansas

Bettina Gransow, Freie Universität Berlin

Liz Gray, Moravian University

Naima Green-Riley, Princeton University

Lillian Gregory, University of Michigan

Joe Grengs, University of Michigan

William Grimes, Boston University

Garrett Groesbeck, Wesleyan University

Paul Groner, University of Virginia, prof. emeritus

Timothy Grose, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

A. Tom Grunfeld, Empire State College/SUNY

Lei Guang, UC San Diego

Dimitar Gueorguiev, Syracuse University

Arjun Guneratne, Macalester College

Longhua Guo, University of Michigan

X. Edward Guo, Asian American Academy of Science and Engineering

Yanhong Guo, University of Michigan

Amauri Gutierrez Coto, Lafayette College

Matthew Gutmann, Brown University

Robert Guy, University of Washington

Tyrell Haberkorn, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Kelly Hammond, University of Arkansas

Eric Han, College of William & Mary

Li Han, Rhodes College

Keith Hand, University of California College of the Law, San Francisco

Emily Hannum, University of Pennsylvania

Ben Hansen, University of Michigan

Rick Harbaugh, Indiana University, Kelley School of Business

Virginia Harper Ho, City University of Hong Kong

Charles Hartman, SUNY-Albany

Jonathan Hassid, Iowa State University

Charles Hayford, Independent Scholar

Jingwei He, Scholar

Gavin Healy, SUNY Old Westbury

Robert Hefner, Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University

Robert Hegel, Washington University in St. Louis (retired)

Laura Hein, Northwestern University

Gustav Heldt, University of Virginia

Natasha Heller, University of Virginia

Gail Hershatter, University of California, Santa Cruz

Peter Hessler, The New Yorker Magazine

Lehyla Heward, University of Oklahoma

Michael Gibbs Hill, William & Mary

Lincoln Hines, Georgia Institute of Technology

TJ Hinrichs, Cornell University

Frances Hisgen, Hoover Institution, Stanford University

Denise Ho, Georgetown University

Joseph Ho, University of Michigan

Hon-wai Ho, Institute of History & Philology, Academia Sinica, Nankang, Taipei, Taiwan

James-Henry Holland, Hobart and William Smith Colleges

Lauren Hood, University of Michigan

Germaine A. Hoston, University of California San Diego

Madeline Hsu, UMD

Yanzhong Huang, Seton Hall University

Yingying Huang, Lafayette College

Yuxiang Huang, University of Michigan, Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology

Amy Hughes University of Michigan

Richard Hume, University of Michigan

David Humphrey, Michigan State University

Justin Hunter, University of Arkansas

Michael Hunter, Yale University

Eric Hutton, University of Utah

Eric Hyer, Brigham Young University (ret.)

Pedro Iacobelli, Universidad de los Andes

Charlotte Ikels, Case Western Reserve University

Britta Ingebretson, Fordham University

Daryl Ireland, Boston University

Hunly Ith, Independent Scholar

Wesley M Jacobsen, Harvard University

Kyle Jaros, University of Notre Dame

Maria Jaschok, Oxford University

Harlan Jencks, University of California

Leigh Jenco, London School of Economics and Political Science

Mark Jia, Georgetown University Law Center

Ruixue Jia, UC San Diego

Li Jin, DePaul University

Ian Johnson, Independent researcher

Alex Johnston, Entrepreneur / Lecturer

Lindsay Jolivette, University of Southern California

Brenda Jordan, University of Pittsburgh

Philip Kafalas, Georgetown University

Kenneth Kalchik, University of Michigan

Nadia Kanagawa, UCLA

Elsa Kania, Harvard University

Robert Kapp, U.S.-China Education Trust

Isaac Kardon, Johns Hopkins SAIS

Paul Katz, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

Katherine Kaup, Furman University

Banu Kaygusuz Tezel, University of Toronto

John Keane, UM Statistics

Thomas Keirstead, University of Toronto

Charles Keith, Michigan State University

Thomas Kellogg, Georgetown University Law Center

David Kelly, Lecturer III in Civil & Environmental Engineering

John Kennedy, University of Kansas

Scott Kennedy, CSIS

Tana Kestich, Speech and Language Pathologist

Paize Keulemans, Princeton University

Sumaiya Khwaja, University of Michigan

Jan Kiely, Geneva Graduate Institute

Robin Kietlinski, City University of New York

Sunhong Kim, University of Michigan

Stella Kim, Columbia University

Seonmin Kim, Korea University

Hosu Kim, City University of New York

Michelle King, Associate Professor, History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Jason Kingdon, Serica

Jeffrey Kinkley, St. John’s University, New York

Jolene Kinser, South Pacific Alliance District of The C&MA

Steven Kivelson, Stanford University

Teppei Kiyosue, The Ohio State University

Terry Kleeman, University of Colorado

Lucas Klein, Arizona State University

Jakob Klein, SOAS University of London

Kenneth Klein, University of Southern California

Daniel Klyn, School of Information

Daniel Knorr, Illinois State University

Elizabeth Knup, Jackson School of Global Affairs, Yale University

Karrie Koesel, University of Notre Dame

Divya Kolli, MCDB Department

Peggy Kong, University of Utah

Weston Konishi, Sake Brewers Association of North America

Anna Kovarzin, UM MCDB

Paul Krieger, Retired professor and independent scholar

Arthur Kroeber, New York University Stern School of Business

Tana Krstich, Speech and Language Pathologist

Thomas Kubisiak, University of Michigan

Karil Kucera, St. Olaf College

Anuj Kumar, MCDB, University of Michigan

Chien-Wen Kung, National University of Singapore

Kaiser Kuo, Sinica Podcast

Mark Kushner, University of Michigan

Veronika Kusumaryati, University of Wisconsin Madison

Emily Kutil, University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning

Lars Peter Laamann, SOAS, University of London

Selina Lam, Civic Participant

Thomas Lamarre, The University of Chicago

David Lampton, Professor Emeritus, John’s Hopkins University — SAIS

Pierre Landry, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Grant Landry University of Michigan MCDB

John Langmore, Biophyics and MCDB Professsor, emeritis, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

Yasmina Laouar, Microbiology and Immunology

Larissa Larsen, Professor, University of Michigan

Wendy Larson, University of Oregon

Jane Larson, Independent scholar

Charles A. Laughlin, University of Virginia

Terry Lautz, Johns Hopkins, SAIS

Elizabeth Lawrence, Augustana College

Anh Le, Waseda University

Jennifer Lee, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Haiyan Lee, Stanford University

Helios Leung, University of Michigan

Wendy Leutert, Indiana University Bloomington

Liza Levina, Professor and Chair of Statistics, University of Michigan

Jonathan Levine, University of Michigan

Nancy Levine, University of California, Los Angeles

Margaret Lewis, Seton Hall University, School of Law

Joanna Lewis, Georgetown University

Ming Li, MCDB-LSA

Yunxin Li, Simmons University

Xinghua Li, University of Michigan

Xiaogan Liang, Mechanical Engineering Department, Univ. of Michigan

Ann Lin, University of Michigan

Jiandie Lin, University of Michigan

Xiaoxia “Nina” Lin, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor

Peter Lin, University of Michigan

Silvia Lindtner, University of Michigan

Katheryn Linduff, University of Pittsburgh

Jonathan Lipman, Mount Holyoke College

Ralph Litzinger, Duke University, Cultural Anthropology

Josie Liu, Trinity University

Fei Liu, University of Michigan

Zhixin Liu, University of Michigan — Dearborn

Allen Liu, University of Michigan

Henry Liu, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Jennifer Liu, Central Michigan University

Yan Liu, Duke University

Yvonne Liu, China Institute Next Gen Serica (CINGS)

Craig Lockard, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay (emeritus)

Emma Loizeaux, University of Colorado Boulder

Yojairo Lomeli, Faculty, University of Michigan

Kristen Looney, Georgetown University

Peter Lorentzen, University of San Francisco

Joey Low, Brandeis

Ann Lui, University of Michigan

Hannah Lund, Independent China scholar and translator

Jennifer Lund, University of Michigan

Manling Luo, Indiana University

Han Luo, Lafayette College

Daniel Lynch, City University of Hong Kong, and formerly at USC

Yingyi Ma, Syracuse University

Jun Ma, Northeastern University

Peter Ma, University of Michigan

Patricia Maclachlan, University of Texas at Austin

Bruce Maclaren, Bonhams, Global Head Chinese Paintings and Calligraphy

Richard Madsen, UCSD

Michelle Maiuri, Serica

Tabitha Mallory, China Ocean Institute

Michael Marme, History Department, Fordham University

Howard Martin, Retired

Phillip Marzluf, Kansas State University

Alexandra Mathieu, Yale University

Katherine Matsuura, Stanford University

Daniel Mattingly, Yale University

Anna Maurer, LSA Biophysics

Thomas Mazanec, University of California, Santa Barbara

Helen McCabe, Daemen University

Mary M. McCarthy, Drake University

Michelle McCoy, University of Pittsburgh

Katherine McDonald, University of Michigan Graduate Student

Daniel McDowell, Syracuse University, Maxwell School of Citizenship & Public Affairs

Dennis McGilvray, University of Colorado, Boulder

Mike McGovern, Department of Anthropology

Keith McMahon, University of Kansas

Kate McManus, University of MN

Eden McQueen, University of Michigan

Anjana Mebane-Cruz, Farmingdale State College, Emerita

Evan Medeiros, Georgetown University

Allan Megill, University of Virginia

Eugenio Menegon, Assoc Prof. Boston University

Caroline Merrifield, NYU

Andrew Mertha George and Sadie Hyman Professor of China Studies, Johns Hopkins/SAIS

Tobie Meyer-Fong, Johns Hopkins University

R Blake Michael, Ohio Wesleyan University

Ethan Michelson, Indiana University Bloomington, Department of Sociology, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures

Peter Michelson, Stanford University

Joanna Middleditch, Association for Asian Studies

Meredith Miller, University of Michigan

Laura Miller, University of Missouri St. Louis

Ai Miller, University of Minnesota Libraries

David Millians, Paideia School

James Millward, Georgetown University School of Foreign Service

Carl Minzner, Fordham Law School

Jayden Mitchell, The Ohio State University

Lynne Miyake, Pomona College

Adam Monohon, PhD Student, UCLA

David Monteleone, Independent scholar

Bethany Moore, University of Michigan

Thomas Moore, University of Michigan

Kari Moore, University of Utah

Lori Morimoto, University of Virginia

Mabel Morris, UC San Diego

Sarah Moser, McGill University

Ruth Mostern, University of Pittsburgh

Jessica Moyer, Smith College

Dustin Murphy, University of Michigan Staff

Jayakrishnan Nandakumar, University of Michigan

Andrew J. Nathan, Columbia University

Barry Naughton, University of California, San Diego

Lindsay Nelson, Meiji University

Sara Newland, Associate Professor of Government, Smith College

Kwai Ng, University of California, San Diego

Samantha Nichols, Michigan Medicine

Fernanda Nicola, American University Washington College of Law

Mica Nimkarn, University of Michigan

Sam Ning, EFCLA

Theodore Norris, University of Michigan

Kevin O’Brien, UC-Berkeley

Rachel O’Brien, University of Michigan

Teresa O’Meara, University of Michigan

Sean O’Reilly, Akita International University

Tim Oakes, University of Colorado Boulder

Young Kyun Oh, Arizona State University

Jean Oi, Stanford University

Bryndon Oleson, University of Michigan

Cyrus Omar, University of Michigan

Melek Ortabasi, Simon Fraser University

John Osburg, University of Rochester

Keyao Pan, Florida International University

Wing Pang, Christian Leadership Exchange

Minu Park, University of California, Irvine

De’Jana Parker, University of Michigan

Kimberly Pavuk, University of Michigan

Martha Peaks, George Washington University

Jillian Pearring, University of Michigan

Margaret Pearson, University of Maryland

Chris Peikert, University of Michigan, Computer Science and Engineering

Elisheva Perelman, The College of Saint Benedict & Saint John’s University

David Pietz, University of Arizona

Sarah Pinto, Tufts University

Pawel Piszczatowski, University of Warsaw

Jon Pitt, University of California, Irvine

Stephen Platt, University of Massachusetts-Amherst

Kenneth Pomeranz, University of Chicago

Samuel Porter, University of Michigan

Corey Powell, University of Michigan

Smriti Prasad, Research Scholar

David Prejsnar, Community College of Philadelphia

Eric Priest, University of Oregon School of Law

Xiaoyu Pu, University of Nevada

Jianming Qian, University of Michigan

Rachel Quist, University of Kansas

Andrew Rabah, Michigan Medicine

Gloria Goodwin Raheja, University of Minnesota

Johanna Ransmeier, University of Chicago

Salvatore Rappoccio, University at Buffalo

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Suvi Rautio, University of Helsinki/City University New York

Bradly Reed, University of Virginia

Humberto Regalado, University of Michigan

Elizabeth Remick, Tufts University

Sydney Richardson, University of Michigan

Jeffrey Richey, Berea College

Allen Riedy Retired Librarian, University of Hawaii at Manoa

Rachel Rinaldo, University of Colorado Boulder

Scott Ritchie, Kennesaw State University

Maria Ritzema, College of DuPage

Justin Ritzinger, University of Miami

Luke Roberts, Professor, History Department, University of California Santa Barbara

Sarah Rodriguez, Emory University

Ruth Rogaski, Vanderbilt University

Richard Rogel, University of Michigan Alumni

Sasha Rollinson, MCDB

Morris Rossabi, City University of New York

Scott Rozelle, Stanford University

Mark Rulkowski, University of Michigan

Steve Runge, Boston College Libraries

Katherine Rupp, Yale Council on East Asian Studies

Kathleen Ryor, Carleton College

Gary J. Sampson, Ph.D., LtCol, USMC (Ret.); Independent National Security Strategist

Chloe Santiago, University of Minnesota

Tanja Sargent, Rutgers University

Haun Saussy, University of Chicago

Janine Sawada, Brown University

Xavi Sawada, Yale University

David Schaberg, UCLA

Holly Scheer, University of Michigan PhD student in the department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

Mark Schlissel, University of Michigan

Eric Schluessel, The George Washington University

Morten Schlutter, University of Iowa

Sigrid Schmalzer, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Sarah Schneewind, UC, San Diego

Jeffrey Schneider, Vassar College

Andrew Schonebaum, University of Maryland

Leonard Schoppa, University of Virginia

Christina Schwenkel, UC Riverside

Suzanne Scoggins, Clark University

Jackie Seddon, PhD Student, University of Michigan

Travis Seifman, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan

Martha Ann Selby, Harvard University

Deborah Seligsohn, Villanova University

Sophea Seng, California State University, Long Beach

Gregory Shaffer, Georgetown law

Libo Shan, University of Michigan

Carrie Shang, Cal Poly Pomona

Hugh Shapiro, University of Nevada, Reno

Edward Shaughnessy, University of Chicago

Connie Shemo, Plattsburgh State University

Eric Shepherd, University of South Florida

Kyle Shernuk, Georgetown University

Anna Shields, Princeton University

Victor Shih, UC San Diego

Kang Shin, University of Michigan

Kyoung Shin, American University of Sharjah

Susan Shirk, University of California, San Diego

Ra Shou, Cornell University

Haipei Shue, United Chinese Americans (UCA)

J. Travis Shutz, California State University, Los Angeles

John Sidel, London School of Economics and Political Science

Mark Sidel, UW-Madison

David Skidmore, Drake University

Teri Skillman, University of Hawaii

Sheryl Smith, Independent Scholar

Joanna Handlin Smith, Harvard-Yenching Institute

Zach Smith, University of Central Arkansas

Robert Snow, Retired

Jacob Sobota, University of Michigan

Elliot Soloway, University of Michigan, College of Engineering, CSE Division

Matthew Sommer, Stanford University

Conghe Song, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Irina Sotirova, Sofia University

Stephanie Sparrow, University of Minnesota

Susan Spencer, University of Central Oklahoma

Anthony J. Spires, The University of Melbourne

Phillip Stalley, Political Science, DePaul University

Aaron Stalnaker, Indiana University

Kristin Stapleton, University at Buffalo, SUNY

Julie Steiff, University of Michigan

Randy Stockbridge, Associate Professor, University of Michigan

Anthony Stott, University of Chicago

Julia Strauss, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London

Vijay Subramanian, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Tom Suchan, Eastern Michigan University

Teresa Sun, Retired

Yuekai Sun, University of Michigan

Doris Sung The University of Alabama

Richard Suttmeier, University of Oregon

Michael Swaine, Quincy Institute for Responsible Starecraft

Michele Swanson, University of Michigan Medical School

Andrew Tai, University of Michigan Medical School

Hue-Tam Tai, Harvard University (emerita)

Hiroki Takeuchi, Southern Methodist University (SMU)

Gina Tam, Trinity University

Daniel Tam-Claiborne, Author of “Transplants”

Nicola Tannenbaum, Lehigh University

Benjamin Tausig, SUNY-Stony Brook

Stephan Taylor, University of Michigan Medical School, Department of Psychiatry

Jessica Teets, Middlebury College

Janet Theiss, University of Utah

Emma Thornton-Kolbe, University of Michigan

Rian Thum, University of Manchester

Yingguihang Tian, National University of Singapore

Yingguihang Tian, National University of Singapore

Vladimir Tikhonov, Oslo University

Wing-kai To, Bridgewater State University

Ruth Toulson, Maryland Institute College of Art

Kentaro Toyama, University of Michigan

Rory Truex, Princeton University

Danica Truscott, Harvard University

Kellee Tsai, Northeastern University

Darwin Tsen, Syracuse University

Hideto Tsuboi, Waseda University

Joseph Tucker, UNC Chapel Hill

Sue (Mary Clare) Tuohy, Indiana University

Alicia Turner, York University

Elanah Uretsky, Brandeis University

John Van Sant, University of Alabama-Birmingham

Anthony Vecchiarelli, University of Michigan

Kristin Vekasi, University of Maine

Kristen Verhey, University of Michigan

Paul Vierthaler, Princeton University

J. Keith Vincent, Boston University

Nick Vogt, Associate Professor of Early Chinese History, Indiana University

Alicia Volk, University of Maryland

Peter von Buelow, University of Michigan

Steven Vose, University of Colorado-Denver

Josh Walker, Educator

Cara Wallis, University of Michigan

Michael Walsh, Vassar College

Christine Walters, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa

Anne Walthall, University of California, Irvine

Ann Waltner, University of Minnesota

Linda Walton, Portland State University

Alex Wang, Professor of Law, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

Feng Wang, University of California, Irvine

Michelle C. Wang, Georgetown University

Shaomeng Wang, The University of Michigan

Xueding Wang, University of Michigan

You Wang, University of Chicago

Yuan Wang, Ripon College

Zuoyue Wang, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

Carolyn Wargula, Bucknell University

Megumi Watanabe, Princeton University

Kathryn Weathersby, Georgetown University

John Webster, Independent China scholar

David Weeks, Sunrise International

Benno Weiner, Carnegie Mellon University

Jessica Weiss, Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies

Meredith Weiss, University at Albany, SUNY

Michael Wellman, University of Michigan

Xiaoquan Wen, University of Michigan

Michael Wert, Marquette University

Timothy Weston, University of Colorado Boulder

Chad Westra, University of Washington

Samantha Wheeler, University of Michigan — Ann Arbor

Erick White, Independent Scholar

Chris White, The Ohio State University

Martin Whyte, Harvard University

Emily Wilcox, William & Mary

Katherine Wilhelm, NYU School of Law

John Williams, Colorado College

Cory Willmott, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

Miranda Wilson, China Focus @ The Carter Center

Leslie Winston, California State University, San Bernardino

Kim Wishart, Princeton University — Marquand Library

Matthew Wizinsky, Taubman College

Christiane Wobus, University of Michigan

Brantly Womack, University of Virginia

Joel Wong SVCM

R. Bin Wong, UCLA

Margaret Woo, Northeastern University

Tristen Woodruff, Central Michigan University

Max Woodworth, Ohio State University

Suzanne Wright, University of Tennessee

Shellen Wu, Lehigh University

Xun Wu, University of Michigan

Jeremy Wu, APA Justice Task Force

Yi-Li Wu, University of Michigan (Depts. of Women’s and Gender Studies and History)

Xianwei Wu, University of Toronto

Ellen Wu, Indiana University (Assoc. Professor, Dept of History)

Roberta Wue, University of California, Irvine

Bin Xu, Emory University

Zhen Xu, University of Michigan

Zhaohui Xue, Stanford University

Akemi Yamauchi, Miyagi University of Education

Qin Yan, Yale University

Alexandra Yan, UC Irvine

Song Yang, UARK

Guobin Yang, University of Pennsylvania

Shao-yun Yang, Denison University

Jidong Yang, Harvard University

Christine Yano, University of Hawaii

Min Ye, Boston University Pardee School of Global Studies

Wen Ye, University of Michigan

Walt Ye, University of Michigan-Dearborn

Shuqi Ye, University of Minnesota

Ding Ye, Georgetown University Library

Emily Yeh, University of Colorado Boulder

Wei-Ting Yen, Academia Sinica

Lei Ying, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Brandon Yoder, Stanford University

Hongfeng Yu, University of Michigan

Grace Yu, 1990 Institute

Emma Zang, Yale University

Juliana Zang, University of Michigan

Peter Zarrow, University of Connecticut

Nick Zeller, The Carter Center

Hong Zhan, ERAU

Hang Zhang, George Washington University

Jack Zhang, University of Kansas

Jianzhi Zhang, University of Michigan

Youxue Zhang, The University of Michigan

Zheshen Zhang, University of Michigan

Yi Zhang, University of Michigan-Dearborn

Charlie Yi Zhang, University of Kentucky

Amy Zhang, Harvard University

Natalie Zhang, UCLA

sam zhao, University of Denver

Denise Zheng, 1990 Institute

Zhaohui Zhong, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Yu Zhou, Vassar College

Jiayu Zhou, University of Michigan

Keren Zhu, Davidson College

Haojie Zhu, University of Michigan

Ji Zhu, University of Michigan

Jonathan Zimmerman, University of Pennsylvania

Angela Zito, New York University

Cassie Zuckerman, UM-MCDB PhD Candidate

Michael Zukosky, Eastern Washington University

CC:

• Senator Jim Risch, Chairman of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee
• Senator Jeanne Shaheen, Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee
• Representative Brian Mast, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs
• Representative Gregory Meeks, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs