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President Donald Trump said Monday that the U.S. would allow 600,000 Chinese citizens to attend college in America.

Trump’s comments could be the first sign that the recent tensions between Washington and Beijing may be cooling down. Trump has also gone after Beijing with broad tariffs and threatened to enact more measures on Chinese products.

“We’re going to allow their students to come in. It’s very important, 600,000 students. It’s very important. But we’re going to get along with China,” Trump said.

The comments come during an ongoing trade dispute between the two countries. Washington enacted a 145 percent tariff on all Chinese goods this year. In response, Beijing enacted a 125 percent tariff on U.S. exports to China.

Negotiators in Geneva came to an agreement in May to stop any further tariffs. However, Trump has threatened to enact more tariffs on Chinese-made products in recent weeks. Last week, Trump raised the idea of enacting a 200 percent tariff on Chinese-made magnets, a product Trump said Beijing had “a total monopoly on.”

“China, intelligently, went and they sort of took a monopoly on the world’s magnets,” Trump said. “It’ll probably take us a year to have them.”

At this moment, there are 270,000 Chinese students in America enrolled in U.S. colleges. Trump’s number of 600,000 students would double that number. Universities across the U.S. would see a significant jump in revenue should 600,000 Chinese students enroll in the U.S.

China Student Visas Sign of Change in Tone

The announcement on the acceptance of Chinese students into American schools is a dramatic change in policy for the Trump administration. In May, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the U.S. planned on “aggressively revoking” the visas of Chinese nationals, specifically those affiliated with the Chinese Communist Party. It would also revoke visas from Chinese working in “defense, robotics, and technology research.”

The announcement sent shockwaves through higher education institutions and earned the ire of many universities.

However, Trump appeared to back away from the revocation of Chinese students’ visas in June when he said he had “always been in favor” of Chinese students coming to the U.S. Trump doubled down on that sentiment Monday, promising 600,000 Chinese students would be able to attend school in America.

The comments come on the heels of a meeting Trump had with South Korean President Lee Jae Myung. He was asked about the possibility of a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping.

“I would like to meet him this year,” Trump said. “We have to have a relationship because we’re taking a lot of money in from China.”

Trump said he would like to have a relationship with China, “so I’m all in favor.” But he went on to argue that China was economically taking advantage of the U.S. while Trump was in office.

“I would love to be able to do something. We’ll see what happens,” Trump added. “It’s a much better relationship economically than it was before with Biden. But he allowed that. They just took him to the cleaners.”

The comments about student visas and a meeting with Xi come in the same week that Trump touted the tariffs being levied on Chinese products. Trump appeared to be signaling that the administration would not back down on competition between the U.S. and China, but would maintain certain lines of cooperation.

Trump’s announcement could provide a boon to colleges and universities across the U.S. Chinese students have long made up a large part of the foreign student body in the U.S., with many of the largest schools collecting a large share of their tuition from international students, many of them from China.

When asked by a reporter what he would say to Chinese students who were no longer allowed to study in the U.S., Trump said he was “fine” with their staying in China, but that 600,000 students would be coming to the U.S.