Trump is now at war with foreign students studying in the USA, with Harvard setting the tone. This is going to cripple the USA in need of foreign talents and Trump is trying to lure back manufacturing of higher tech industries. Let us be very clear. Many of the cutting-edge innovations in the past were initiated by and attributed to foreign talents who studied and stayed back to help the USA's development. Just search back and you will see what I mean. Rocketry, nuclear weapons, semiconductors among a few others are just examples.
Trump's war on foreign students studying in USA is going to benefit China, Canada, Australia and Europe. Even Hong Kong is already jumping on the move to attract students in the face of the clampdown by Trump on foreign students. And Chinese universities are not just watching by the wayside.
Chinese universities are rising up the global rankings, with academics culled from those that left the USA in the face of ostracization and demonization. They benefitted Chinese universities more than what Beijing is hoping for. Why not? All readily trained, highly experienced and paid for to acquire their knowledge that the Chinese do not have to burden themselves with. Who is smart and who is dumb is clear for all to see.
Now, the exodus of academics and R & D personnel from USA universities will take on a new impetus. As foreign students are prevented from studying in USA universities, departments will probably have to be trimmed, academics will also be laid off, with some moving to China for sure. So let us enjoy the show of another session of foot shooting.
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The Trump administration is never able to think beyond what they see in front of their noses. Do they honestly have a plan for doing all those things they are setting out to do? Putting the cart before the horse is going to backfire badly against the USA, just like not having the manufacturing base set up yet to produce the consumer products, but already making use of those tariffs to keep out what it needs. Having to backtrack is a bad indication of unsound policies.
The USA is not the only country with high-ranking universities for foreign students. There are equally good high and moderately ranked universities in the UK, Europe, Australia, Japan and now in China as well.
I think Chinese universities would be the biggest beneficiary of the banning by USA of foreign students. Not only does China have hundreds of thousands of Chinese students now studying in the USA to cast its net, but it also has other global foreign students to attract. Did China foresee this action by the USA and had been building universities like no tomorrow? Just think about it.
University ranking bodies have been exposed by Kevin Walmsley for largely ignoring most of the cutting edged research papers written in the Chinese language by Chinese scientists and academics in the past and also at present, though they are realizing it now. This fact has been proven by the rapid development of Chinese innovation in many fields that the West had just ignored until today. For ignoring that, China has quietly surpassed the West in many sectors like EV technology, high-speed rails, bridge construction, space exploration, jet engines, clean energy adoption like building dams, solar energy fields and expanding agriculture and aquaculture.
China has reclaimed deserts to turn them into fertile land for expanding agriculture. China had already also invested much in aquaculture and producing fish on a scale that now baffles the world, not just offshore fish farms, but in desert regions by building huge infrastructures for rearing fish and other seafood, safe from nuclear contamination by Japan's Fukushima waste-water discharge. How the Chinese made use of saltish desert sands mixed with fresh water to produce artificial salt water to rear those fish is already mind boggling. Detractors can call that science fiction, but they should not have failed to notice China's success in many other fields. They are not science fiction just because they have not yet reached the level of Chinese innovation.
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