A Xinhua commentary (May 31) said by prohibiting entry of Chinese students and researchers into the United States, the US Administration had broken the U.S. leadership's promise of welcoming Chinese students who want to pursue studies there. It recalled "The U.S. leader said his country would take good care of Chinese people living in the United States, including Chinese students, during a phone call between the two countries' heads of state on March 27. Apparently, the U.S. side is planning to renege on its own words". The commentary added "More seriously, such a racist move exposes deep-seated zero-sum game mindset and Cold-War mentality of some U.S. politicians. It resembles the anti-Communism narratives in the times of McCarthyism in the late 1940s and 1950s in the United States".