Americans maybe need to read up on a student study scheme called 'the Columbo plan' which Australia used to run.
You could study in Australia but at the end you had to go home. It was non-negotiable in most cases. It wasn't a visa entry pathway.
What it did, was develop a cadre of postdocs who had strong positive memories of their time in Australia, working in their homeland's government and civil society, who were able to help shape foreign policy towards amicable mutual outcomes.
Now, we just sell them accellerated visa entry after spending tens of thousands of dollars to buy a degree.
I think ending the Columbo plan was stupid.
Stopping young Chinese minds studying in America is going to stop them understanding western cultural ideals and values, and stop them becoming attuned, and potentially helpful. If you fixate on IPR theft or other problems, or use them as weapons in trade war, you don't fix the underlying problem.
I kind of preferred the arc of history where evil republicans like Nixon and Kissinger were not stupid.
I don't think Nixon and Kissinger were stupid. I think that they were wrong, and they certainly didn't care that their wrong ideas got a lot of innocent people killed. But I think that they were well read and could show a lot of data supporting their ideas.
If our arc of history were merely as bad as the Nixon and Kissinger era, we'd be a lot better off.
You could study in Australia but at the end you had to go home. It was non-negotiable in most cases. It wasn't a visa entry pathway.
What it did, was develop a cadre of postdocs who had strong positive memories of their time in Australia, working in their homeland's government and civil society, who were able to help shape foreign policy towards amicable mutual outcomes.
Now, we just sell them accellerated visa entry after spending tens of thousands of dollars to buy a degree.
I think ending the Columbo plan was stupid.
Stopping young Chinese minds studying in America is going to stop them understanding western cultural ideals and values, and stop them becoming attuned, and potentially helpful. If you fixate on IPR theft or other problems, or use them as weapons in trade war, you don't fix the underlying problem.
I kind of preferred the arc of history where evil republicans like Nixon and Kissinger were not stupid.