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Seems like a pretty arcane argument. The best reason to be nice to foreign students is that being nice is good, and sinophobia is bad. Or, to help a university
by doctorpangloss 7y ago
Seems like a pretty arcane argument.
The best reason to be nice to foreign students is that being nice is good, and sinophobia is bad. Or, to help a university president interpret his own facts:
> The incompatibility of university culture with systematic scrutiny may explain why even law enforcement officials who have visited our campus have offered little prescriptive guidance, instead offering that we should be vigilant.
Because the government is primarily motivated by sinophobia.
- Leary 7y agoThe government is primarily motivated by not giving China technologies that could pose a threat to national security, however much it may run counter to the cultural values and long term health of the universities.
- ETHisso2017 7y agoLike nailing jello to the wall.
- laughinghan 7y agoSo you're saying you agree with the article? To be sure, government-funded academic research in such national security realms as cybersecurity and bioterrorism is justifiably sensitive. Likewise, academic research conducted in collaboration with U.S. companies — a principal target of most unlawful technology transfers — leads to commercial innovations that warrant protections. Universities have an obligation to comply with existing security protocols, identify sensible ways to bolster them, and cooperate fully with law enforcement authorities and corporate research partners if clear acts of espionage are suspected. To the extent we are falling short in any of these areas — and yes, there have been isolated incidents of academics sharing sensitive intellectual property with foreign governments — we can and must do better.
- PhasmaFelis 7y agoWhy is the general population of college students being given access to technology that's vital to national security? If it's that important, no one should be getting a look at it without a passing a security clearance. A professor isn't qualified to do that in any way.
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- archontes 7y agoWe interact with the Chinese differently than we interact with the Japanese, because the representatives of those groups behave differently. Those behaviors that are common might be due to sinophobia. Those that are not common must be due to something else.
- guerrilla 7y agoWhat you're describing as arcane is called ethics.