Trump hits Harvard. I want to deprive the university $ 100 million

The administration of US President Donald Trump intends to deprive Harvard of all federal contracts, which will limit the income of the prestigious university by another $ 100 million. – results from a letter sent by the government to federal agencies, which the media cite on Wednesday.

Trump also wants to prohibit the Harvard University, which has developed 162 Nobel Prize winners, receiving foreigners, currently constituting 27 percent. all university students.

On Tuesday, Reuters said that Trump's administration ordered American diplomatic municipalities abroad to suspend new meetings with foreigners applying for student visas as part of exchange programs, and the State Department is preparing to exacerbate the verification of foreign students.

The Japanese government, at the news that Trump wants to get rid of foreign students from American universities, including Harvard, turned to Japanese universities to prepare for the possible acceptance of these students – says the AFP agency.

The Minister of Education Toshiko Abe said that her ministry would do everything in his power so that “young, ambitious, talented” people could continue their well in Japan.

“We asked universities to consider what steps they can take to accept students enrolled in American universities,” Abe added.

One of the most prestigious Japanese university, the University of Tokyo, considers the adoption of foreign students “having difficulties” in the US – said Deputy Director Kaori Hayashi in an interview with the financial journal “Nikkei”.

A spokesman for the University of Kyoto, also a very reputable university, stated in an interview with AFP that his institution intends to accept young researchers who graduated from American universities, and “wonders” about receiving students.

The government has already deprived the oldest University of America over $ 2.6 billion. intended for scientific grants – reminded of Associated Press. “Economist” explains that this means that “from day to day” some research projects were suspended in various areas, “from looking for a drug for Alzheimer's disease to quantum physics”.

On Monday, the professor of the Princeton University Jan-Werner Mueller wrote in the “Guardian” daily that Trump's attacks on universities also limit the US Soft Power, and this opinion was divided by the weekly “Economist”, which added that this is an “act of self-destruction” for America above all.

The Ministry of Education of the US, trying to justify these administration attacks, announced that Harvard “does not report funds received from abroad”, “he has cones with the communist party of China” and is “prosterrorist”. (PAP)

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