Chart shows the number of students from China, India and other places enrolled in higher education institutions in the Unites States every year from 2000-01 to 2023-24
Jasper Ward is a breaking news reporter in Washington. She primarily covers national affairs and U.S. politics. Jasper was previously based in The Bahamas where she covered the collapse of FTX and the subsequent arrest of its founder Sam Bankman-Fried. She was a part of the Reuters team that won the Gerald Loeb Award for breaking news for its FTX coverage.
Michael Martina is a Washington-based foreign policy correspondent who covers U.S.-China relations and the global impact of the two countries' diplomatic, technology, and military competition. He was a member of the Reuters team that won the Pulitzer Prize in Investigative Reporting in 2025 for uncovering fentanyl supply chains, and previously reported from Beijing for more than a decade as a senior correspondent for the news agency.