The other day I ran a poll. Here's what actually happened and how China came to integrate its way into the mission-critical United States R&D sector. They provided the cheap labor that had been deliberately mislabeled as 'Study' so as to avoid paying market wage to US scientists. 
After exporting 16 in '83, the US allowed China to flood +35,000 'graduate students' into US universities over 20 yrs. It's almost inconceivable, yet that's why Universities rail against our own people; this is a generation of University leaders who flooded their own labor mkts.
So why was I on this since the 1980s?
Very simply:
This wasn't study abroad.
This was not a US failure in STEM education.
This wasn't b/c science is 'international'.
This was a GIANT security hole on a scale no one could discuss because ALL leading US universities were gorging.
Very simply:
This wasn't study abroad.
This was not a US failure in STEM education.
This wasn't b/c science is 'international'.
This was a GIANT security hole on a scale no one could discuss because ALL leading US universities were gorging.
This was because we didn't support US science and research when we had the chance and we didn't close down our labs. Instead we came up with a multi-decade lie about "students are not workers" and "Science knows no borders" in a big beautiful world where "borders are artificial".
So we invited another nation with an incompatible form of government from our own, to look at EVERYTHING we had that gave us a technical advantage should we have to compete with a newly muscular China. And I mean everything. This is why our Elite protect all Chinese connections.
So when you want to know how we lost our edge, now you know why we are so interdependent on an enormous foreign powerhouse whose leverage over our 'elite' knows no bounds as we cannot decouple. This has nothing to do with race or Xenophobia. Its about the loyalty of our 'Elite'.
And by the way...one last thing: I'm not blaming China.
Why? Because if any nation were actually self-destructive enough to hand me the keys to their most critical sector the way the US did since the early 1980s...well I would have done *exactly* what China did.
Who wouldn't?
Why? Because if any nation were actually self-destructive enough to hand me the keys to their most critical sector the way the US did since the early 1980s...well I would have done *exactly* what China did.
Who wouldn't?
And for those that didn’t see it, here is that Twitter Poll mentioned in the thread:
