U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that U.S. colleges would struggle without Chinese students, amid a backlash from his base after he suggested he could let 600,000 Chinese college students into the country as part of trade talks with the economic rival.


They’ll struggle if you cancel billions of dollars in research funding. But I guess that’s not being represented by an autocrat you want to suck up to because your negotiating strategy is to just get rolled by anyone with power.