Michigan State University Is Selling Shirts With Arabic, Chinese Text

The Michigan State University (MSU) bookstore is selling officially branded shirts with Arabic or Chinese text.

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The shirts, being sold for $32 on the public university’s website, feature the school’s Spartan logo, accompanied by the words “Michigan State University,” translated into Chinese or Arabic. (RELATED: Professor Under Review After Allegedly Forcing Students To Buy Subscription That Donates To Planned Parenthood)

The State News reported last year that MSU had 4,589 international students enrolled for the Fall 2025 semester. The school reported a total enrollment of of 51,838 that semester.

There are about 285 MSU students who reported being from either Arabic speaking or majority Muslim nations, making up just 6.2% of the international student population. Of the international students, 1,063 were from China or other Chinese speaking countries, equating to about 23.2% of the school’s international population.

Of the 285 students from Arabic or Muslim nations enrolled in the fall 2025 semester, approximately 134 are from nations on which President Trump imposed travel restrictions in December 2025.

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A month earlier, Trump announced plans to expand the number of student visas for Chinese nationals to 600,000, angering some conservatives. “Frankly, I think that it’s good that people come from other countries and they learn our culture, and many of them want to stay here. I think it’s a good thing,” he said in an interview on Fox News, adding that banning Chinese international students would “destroy our entire university and college system.”

Items ordered from the MSU bookstore ship only to the United States, according to this Shipping Information on their website.

The 2025-26 Michigan appropriations bill allocated $333.7 million to MSU from the state government.

MSU has not released a statement addressing the products, and did not respond to requests for comment.

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