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If I'm reading the auto-translated Swedish right, it seems like the issue is Finnish universities are advertising the scholarship program for students who want to go learn in the US, and they are using terms that are leading to programs being canceled in the US.
The US counterparts have asked the Finnish Universities to change how things are advertised because they don't want the program to be shut down since it is important. If I was in their shoes, I would be asking the same thing.
Seems overall upsetting, but not nefarious like this article makes it sound. I don't think it's really a moral victory to keep the advertising the way it is, and just have the program cut off; everyone loses. I suppose that since it's a program to promote cultural exchange, it's bound to be shut down by the US govt anyway, so maybe it is best to just go down with the ship (not sure if that's an idiom that translates to finnish).
Yep, as usual a headline is not enough context to actually understand and react to an issue. This sucks but is not the gotcha the headline really wants it to be.