Hong Kong's Education Bureau said that it had called on universities in the Chinese territory to attract top talent following a ban on Harvard University enrolling foreign students.

The latest criticism from the Trump administration of Harvard University highlighted the number of international students entering the United States each year for higher education.

Jeremy Faust, an assistant professor of emergency medicine, said he told a prospective graduate student to consider enrolling at a university abroad.

"We want to know who those foreign students are, a reasonable request since we give Harvard BILLIONS OF DOLLARS, but Harvard isn’t exactly forthcoming," he said. "We want those names and countries. Harvard has $52,000,000, use it, and stop asking for the Federal Government to continue GRANTING money to you!"

President Donald Trump stayed up late on Saturday night to ratchet up his battle with Harvard University with a scathing new social media post.

In the lawsuit filed early Friday in federal court in Boston, the Ivy League school called out the government’s ban as a violation of the Constitution and warned that it would have an “immediate and devastating effect for Harvard and more than 7,000 visa holders.”

The latest confrontation between Harvard University and the Trump administration began last month with a far-reaching demand for data on international students.