Number of Chinese students in the US declines slightly

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A huge wave of Chinese students have come to the U.S. to attend universities, and Chinese students comprise a third of total international graduate students in the U.S. However, the trend may be changing. In recent years, the number of Chinese students applying to U.S. grad schools has gone down slightly, while the number of applicants from countries like India has gone up. CCTV America’s Jim Spellman filed this report from Washington.
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