China’s Golden Ticket, Glitched Future 🎓 What happens when your “golden ticket” to a dream career turns into a boarding pass to nowhere? That is the reality for many Chinese students who bet everything on a U.S. degree, only to collide with geopolitics abroad and rising suspicion at home. The promise was simple: study hard, build global experience, come home, and thrive. The new rulebook says something different, and it is written in the language of national security , visa whiplash , and corporate paranoia . For years, a diploma from a prestigious American university sparkled on a Chinese resume like a cheat code for elite jobs. Parents stretched finances, students took on brutal workloads, and families imagined a payoff that felt guaranteed. Today, that fantasy is glitching in real time. The story of Lian , a 24-year-old master’s grad whose student visa was abruptly revoked, is not a dramatic outlier. It is a representative plotline in a larger narrative where young people b...
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