Continued education overseas is a significant benefit for any student. It is unfortunate that Trump's 'visa vision' is causing students to question traveling to the U.S. to study.

My students often choose Canada, England, Australia and New Zealand to pursue graduate education. In some ways these nations are a safer place for Chinese students to study now.

Fortunately, increasingly large numbers of U.S. students come to China to study. As you suggest, foreign education benefits an individual's global perspective. U.S. citizens certainly need to expand their parochial view of the world.

I'm not so sure that U.S. barriers to immigration will have a significant impact on FTs in China. Perhaps those teachers that specialize in TOEFL and other tests for foreign college admissions will be impacted. Statistically, a very small percentage of Chinese college students matriculate at foreign universities for graduate study.

U.S.-citizen FTs in China, like myself, will certainly be dealing with many questions from our students about our homeland's bizarre President. These questions, like all topics of interest, are a teaching moment, albeit an embarrassing one.