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🗓️ 29 October 2025
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Beijing is making it easier for global science and tech talent to visit or do business in China. Chinese officials opened a new K visa for graduates in science, technology, engineering and math to do research and start companies. This comes as the U.S. is cutting research grants and choking H-1B talent visas. Overseas, analysts say America’s loss could be China’s gain. But within China, there is a lot of anger over the K visa. Marketplace’s China correspondent Jennifer Pak explains from Shanghai.
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| 0:53.2 | China is making it easier for science and tech talent to visit or do business in the country. |
| 0:55.3 | Chinese officials have opened a new so-called K-visa for graduates in science, technology, |
| 1:00.9 | engineering, and math. The aim is to get them to do research and start companies in China. |
| 1:07.3 | This comes as the U.S. is taking the opposite approach, cutting research grants at universities |
| 1:11.9 | and disincentivizing companies from using H-1B visas to bring in highly skilled workers. |
| 1:18.8 | Overseas, analysts say America's loss could be China's gain. |
| 1:22.5 | But within China, there is a lot of anger over the K-visa. |
| 1:26.6 | Our China correspondent, Jennifer Pack, explains from Shanghai. China the K-Visa. Our China correspondent Jennifer Pack explains from Shanghai. |
| 1:30.5 | China's K-Visa offers foreign scientists and tech talent more entries, longer stays. |
| 1:36.1 | And unlike other visa categories, it doesn't require a Chinese sponsor. |
| 1:40.8 | The K-visa was announced back in August to little public reaction, says current affairs |
| 1:46.1 | commentator Xiang Dong Liang, because... It's kind of an obscure topic. That changed in late September, |
| 1:53.9 | when President Donald Trump started charging companies a $100,000 fee for H-1B talent visas. |
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