Good morning. Welcome to Axios today. It's Tuesday July 14th. I'm Naila Boudin and here's

how we're making you smarter today.

There is actually something most Americans agree on.

We're not ready to send kids back to school this fall.

And it's the summer of Mars.

Three different missions are planned to the planet this month.

But first, the international students stuck between America and China is today's

one big thing. foreign students that would kick them out of the US. This puts students from China in a

particularly tough spot. One out of three international students in the US are from

China. And now these Chinese students are not just at risk of losing their visas, but those from

Hong Kong are at a special risk of being arrested upon their return.

It was really scary and even heartbreaking for some students.

Bethany Alan Abrahamium is our China reporter.

She recently spoke to two students who are caught in the middle of the Chinese and American

governments.

I talked to one student who didn't want to give their name, who had been worried for a month about US-China relations and how that might

affect Chinese student visas.

I always have had this fear that everything could fall apart at any second and then on one day it just

seemed like it all did it all happened like the worst get scenario happened my

worst nightmare came true. Bethany you and I talked last week about Hong Kong and the new security laws.

And I wanted to ask you specifically now in light of that, what does it mean for Hong Kong

students if they have to go back to China.

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