U.S. clips travel options for Chinese party members
New rules put into effect by the Trump administration drastically curtail travel by members of the Chinese Communist Party and their immediate families to the U.S., cutting the duration of visas from 10 years to one month.
The restrictions, which went into effect on Wednesday, and the likely Chinese response will be another challenge to President-elect Joe Biden, who is inheriting a U.S.-China relationship that is in its worst state since the normalization of diplomatic ties in 1979.
Details: In principle, the new visa policy could affect the travel of roughly 270 million people, according to U.S. estimates. In practice, it might be difficult to determine who, apart from high-level officials, belongs to the Chinese Communist Party.
U.S. citizenship: The Trump administration is also rolling out sweeping changes to the test immigrants must take to become citizens, injecting hints of conservative philosophy and making the test harder for many learners of the English language. Here is how it might look.
The New York Times
Me: Ex President Trump is putting into place many changes to American Democracy which the new President Biden will find hard to overturn or replace – I wonder what Trump’s long term vision is, that he can and is doing this, pretty much unopposed.