The Chinese students come with government-paid tuition and fees. Some colleges might well suffer financial hardship without that money (or replacement funds from new US grants). Think of it as exporting information. One way of getting ours back.
The negative consequences? Perhaps even more significant than the sensitivity of some of that information is the educational opportunities exceptional US students are blocked from.
Look up the travels of Marco Polo and his kin in China. The reason so many Europeans were invited in over the Silk Route by Qubilai (Kublai) Khan and his family was that the Mongols, not trusting the native Chinese they had conquered, were trying to build up a civil service of foreigners who were at least controllable, even if not necessarily loyal.
The same idea is at the root of post-modern Western government policies. With the addition of hoping for a new class of loyal, one-party progressive voters.
I don’t think the Founding Fathers ever considered that their elected successors would prove as self-seeking and cynical as the likes of Arnold, Burr and Valladingham.
Some of the Universities these foreign students are going to obe going to are Hard STEM Schools. Very little to do with DEI courses(They’re there, Just unlikely the Chinese students will enroll in any of them) And It is highly possible that a fair percentage of these students will a) Choose to Stay in the US and become Americans, and b) Be the type of Immigrants we want and need, per Trump’s First term goals on Immigration.
China will still be getting a boost to their Brain Trust, but I think that for the wages and advantages of even our current and previous government, the ones staying are wanting to have a dream life through hard labor, not a hard life filled with Hard Labor, if you get my meaning…
So, bringing in these foreign “students” is a money issue. Which is the biggest concern with regards to this potential loss of revenue, that the ivy covered bricks of the university might start to crumble, or that the pompous tenured professors might have to take a pay cut?
Universities have become so addicted to the revenue stream of government backed student financial aid that they’ve priced themselves right out of the American market, to the point where they need to import students who have financial backing from their home governments.
On the surface it has the potential to be nothing more than a money laundering scheme.
Maybe he did the middle class a favor. Maybe our kids(or grandkids in my case) should go to trade school and learn a trade that actually pays well. Cheaper, better return on investment. I doubt robots are going to be able to rewire a main breaker panel for home or commercial applications in their work lifetimes. Or accurately diagnose and clear a sewer line? Or repair a scratched/dented car door?
If every Chinese stem student had to pay not only their tuition, but that of a middle or lower class American in same coursework.
Then it might be a bit more acceptable.
Not enough US stem students in right income? Well China should then lobby changes in US early education and support programs that help such.
Everyone of those students is obliged to collect, some better than others, depending on school and curriculum. Every. Last. One. Kindness doesn’t count. It is an overt attempt to undermine and subvert by espionage colored in academic robes. Try that act over there. Stop funding higher education where it does not directly benefit the U.S.
Given the indoctrination which most universities provide (as opposed to education), the concept of sending a crop of DEI/CRT/Social Justice Wankers back to China almost seems cruel.
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What in the world is he thinking with teaching Chinese?
Same old, Same old. We all got No value. Anyone else first. And don’t get me started on laying off citizens to hire furners at half or less wages.
“American universities would fail…”
That’s a feature, not a bug.
Aaargh.
Just had an attack of Thumbuptis Interruptis.
No thumbs here.
Agreed
And judging from advances in Schooling by Internet we just may have a superior alternative coming up the pike.
The press ALWAYS lies, so the whole story of these people will not be told to the public. Need to wait some time on how this plays out.
The Chinese students come with government-paid tuition and fees. Some colleges might well suffer financial hardship without that money (or replacement funds from new US grants). Think of it as exporting information. One way of getting ours back.
The negative consequences? Perhaps even more significant than the sensitivity of some of that information is the educational opportunities exceptional US students are blocked from.
Look up the travels of Marco Polo and his kin in China. The reason so many Europeans were invited in over the Silk Route by Qubilai (Kublai) Khan and his family was that the Mongols, not trusting the native Chinese they had conquered, were trying to build up a civil service of foreigners who were at least controllable, even if not necessarily loyal.
The same idea is at the root of post-modern Western government policies. With the addition of hoping for a new class of loyal, one-party progressive voters.
I don’t think the Founding Fathers ever considered that their elected successors would prove as self-seeking and cynical as the likes of Arnold, Burr and Valladingham.
But here we are.
clear ether
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I don’t know…
Some of the Universities these foreign students are going to obe going to are Hard STEM Schools. Very little to do with DEI courses(They’re there, Just unlikely the Chinese students will enroll in any of them) And It is highly possible that a fair percentage of these students will a) Choose to Stay in the US and become Americans, and b) Be the type of Immigrants we want and need, per Trump’s First term goals on Immigration.
China will still be getting a boost to their Brain Trust, but I think that for the wages and advantages of even our current and previous government, the ones staying are wanting to have a dream life through hard labor, not a hard life filled with Hard Labor, if you get my meaning…
There is a very ugly word for a woman that compromises her principles for money.
Starts with a “W”.
So, bringing in these foreign “students” is a money issue. Which is the biggest concern with regards to this potential loss of revenue, that the ivy covered bricks of the university might start to crumble, or that the pompous tenured professors might have to take a pay cut?
Universities have become so addicted to the revenue stream of government backed student financial aid that they’ve priced themselves right out of the American market, to the point where they need to import students who have financial backing from their home governments.
On the surface it has the potential to be nothing more than a money laundering scheme.
Rule number one: Follow The Money ! !
If Chinese students are required
to report back to the CCP why would
we double the number allowed to
come study here?
Did P. DJT misspeak? WTF?
Maybe he did the middle class a favor. Maybe our kids(or grandkids in my case) should go to trade school and learn a trade that actually pays well. Cheaper, better return on investment. I doubt robots are going to be able to rewire a main breaker panel for home or commercial applications in their work lifetimes. Or accurately diagnose and clear a sewer line? Or repair a scratched/dented car door?
If every Chinese stem student had to pay not only their tuition, but that of a middle or lower class American in same coursework.
Then it might be a bit more acceptable.
Not enough US stem students in right income? Well China should then lobby changes in US early education and support programs that help such.
Everyone of those students is obliged to collect, some better than others, depending on school and curriculum. Every. Last. One. Kindness doesn’t count. It is an overt attempt to undermine and subvert by espionage colored in academic robes. Try that act over there. Stop funding higher education where it does not directly benefit the U.S.
Given the indoctrination which most universities provide (as opposed to education), the concept of sending a crop of DEI/CRT/Social Justice Wankers back to China almost seems cruel.
Nowhere have I sen any differentiation: are these Chinese students coming from the PRC (ugh), the Republic of China (yay), or a mix?