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Former Trump U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley warned Thursday that President Donald Trump’s plan to allow 600,000 Chinese students to study in the United States would be a “massive mistake.”

“That would be a huge gift to China and a threat to the United States,” Haley wrote on X.

Haley’s criticism surprised many conservatives who said they did not expect her to take a harder line than Trump on China and immigration.

“I did not have Nikki Haley being to Trump’s right on immigration issues on my 2025 bingo card,” wrote X user S.A. McCarthy, an editor at The American Spectator magazine.

TRUMP’S CHINESE STUDENT VISA PUSH SETS OFF ALARM BELLS AMID RISING CCP ‘INFLUENCE’ IN US

“I rarely agree with Nikki Haley. I think she is far too much of a throwbac

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