被中国制裁的“反华急先锋”美国参议员汤姆·科顿 (Tom Cotton) 将出任参议院情报委员会主席，这将使他担任国会最关键的国家安全职位之一。科顿曾率先指出“新冠病毒是人为泄露”，明确要求就疫情向中国索赔。中国外交部发言人赵立坚曾说，“谁都知道科顿是个什么人，他说的话就像废纸一样。”

科顿曾接受福克斯记者采访时声称，美国应限制中国留学生来美学习高科技和技术专业，“我们可以让他们来美国学习莎士比亚和《联邦党人文集》，而不需要在美国学习量子计算和人工智能”。汤姆 科顿还和另一名美国参议员布莱克本提出过一项议案，要求禁止向赴美从事科学、技术、工程和数学研究的中国人发放学生签证。

Tom Cotton, a U.S. senator who has been sanctioned by China for his “anti-China vanguard”, will serve as chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, which will put him in one of the most critical national security positions in Congress. Cotton was the first to point out that “the new coronavirus was a man-made leak” and explicitly demanded compensation from China for the epidemic. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian once said, “Everyone knows who Cotton is, and what he said is like waste paper.”

Cotton once claimed in an interview with a Fox reporter that the United States should restrict Chinese students from coming to the United States to study high-tech and technical majors, “We can let them come to the United States to study Shakespeare and The Federalist Papers, but they don’t need to study quantum computing and artificial intelligence in the United States.” Tom Cotton also proposed a bill with another U.S. Senator Blackburn to ban the issuance of student visas to Chinese people who go to the United States to conduct research in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

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