Those disagreements have overshadowed everything. But when President Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping met last November, they agreed to encourage more student exchanges as a way to stabilize relations. So far, though, the number of Americans choosing to study in China is low. The U.S. government says about 800 American students were in the country this spring. That's up from about 200 during the depths of the pandemic, but it's a fraction of what it was just a few years ago. According to data compiled by the Institute of International Education, there were over 11,000 Americans studying in China in 2019. By comparison, there are nearly 300,000 Chinese students in the United States. Secretary of State Antony Blinken raised the issue when he met students at New York University's campus in Shanghai in April.
_{John Ruwitch, Why the number of American students choosing to study in China remains low, June 2024. (Emphasis added.)}

I'd like to fact-check this. The claim also appears in The Economist (May 2024), China File (March 2024), The News Lens (June 2024), and Christian Science Monitor (April 2024; they instead say 700).

Question: Are there merely 800 American students in China?