How about a little more color: There are 20.2 million kids in US colleges (12.2 million college students below the age of 25. There are another 8.2 million ove

How about a little more color: There are 20.2 million kids in US colleges (12.2 million college students below the age of 25. There are another 8.2 million over the age of 25). Source: http://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d14/tables/dt14_105.20.asp?current=yes http://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d14/tables/dt14_105.20.as... Of these students, 974,000 or about 1 in 20 (round it to 5%) is a foreign student. The important thing about foreign students is that, except for a few cases of truly spectacular talent, they pay full freight and effectively subsidized US students. Now of those 974,000, about 1 in 3, or about 300,000 are of Chinese origin. http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/11/16/china-us-colleges-education-chinese-students-university/ http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/11/16/china-us-colleges-educat... That is about just under 2%. I hardly consider that crowding out US students. (Please also note that some US students who go to China and learn from their schools, though I assume this is tiny.) So in terms of fear of "crowding", I think this is overblown. In terms of taking IP over to China, its important to understand that the vast majority of this IP is free stuff that anyone can learn. We are talking about math and science up to the graduate level. When you talk about the truly advanced PhD level stuff, well they are "stealing" it, but they also "create" it by working on experiments, interacting with other people, and so on. They contribute it as much as they "steal" it. At least, in my experience, you can't really learn at the PhD level without engaging other people. So if someone here believes the Chinese government has a secret plan to send over their best and brightest to toil for years in top academic institutions and take back the knowledge they helped create, all I can say is: this plan is going to backfire and help the US as much as anyone.