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Steal brains from a country and no one bats an eye, steal ideas from a country and everyone loses their minds.

• krtkush 8y ago
  > Steal brains They did not force anyone to migrate to the country.
  • devoply 8y ago
    What I was talking about is, if the guy just left the country with all the ideas in his head and went back to China there would be no case. But because there is evidence showing he had access to some ideas that he was not supposed to have access to they have a case against him.
  • paganel 8y ago
    They kind of did when the best universities in the West have depended at some stage of their life on the host countries doing some bad things to countries like China (think the opium war in the mid-1800s). The reason that countries like China or India don't have their Harvards and Oxbridges is not because the people in there were more stupid and didn't know how to run a higher place of learning, it's because the adversarial socio-economic conditions of that time (many of them imposed by the host countries of the Harvards and the Oxbridges) forbade them to.
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  • StreamBright 8y ago
    Who exactly? US government had a program for this after WWII. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip