内容摘要：of meeting the full 2024-25 pay recommendations would be an additional £9.4bn.

of meeting the full 2024-25 pay recommendations would be an additional £9.4bn.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem accused Harvard of "co-ordinating with the Chinese Communist Party".Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that the move against Chinese students in the US would include "those with connections to the Chinese Communist Party or studying in critical fields".

That could hit a wide swathe of them given membership of the Communist Party is common among officials, entrepreneurs, business people and even artists and celebrities in China.Beijing has called it a "politically motivated and discriminatory action", and its foreign ministry has lodged a formal protest.There was a time when China sent the highest number of foreign students to American campuses. But those numbers slipped as the relationship between the two countries soured.

A more powerful and increasingly assertive Beijing is now clashing with Washington for supremacy in just about everything, from trade to tech.Trump's first term had already spelled trouble for Chinese students. He signed an order in 2020 barring Chinese students and researchers with ties to Beijing's military from obtaining US visas.

That order remained in place during President Joe Biden's term. Washington never clarified what constitutes "ties" to the military, so many students had their

or were turned away at US borders, sometimes without a proper explanation.More surprising, perhaps, is the opinion of his American competitors in California and Oregon who, you might think, would be cracking open something a bit special to celebrate.

"This looks horrible from our perspective. We don't like it one bit," says Rex Stults, vice-president of industry relations at Napa Valley Vintners, which represents 540 wineries in the sunny slopes of California's most famous wine region."Wine is an international product. Even here in the Napa Valley, our wineries primarily get their corks from Portugal, and their oak barrels, a key component in winemaking, from France.

Mr Stults adds: "They're already expensive and the potential is that they will get more expensive."Also, trade wars cut both ways. He says the tariffs announced against Canada are having a devastating impact on US wine exports.