The Fulbright fellowship's alumni association will hold its annual gathering this week in Miami for the first time — an event organizers say matters more amid the Trump administration's moves to cancel international exchange programs.

"We want to send a strong message that if the U.S. leaves the area of international exchange, our competitors, especially China, will fill that void," said Fulbright Association vice president Leland Lazarus, an international relations professor at Florida International University, where the conference will take place from Friday through Sunday.

As a result, he said, the title of this year's conference, the association's 48th, is: United We Stand.

Lazarus, who is also a geopolitical risk consultant with expertise in China and Latin American relations, sa

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