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You really have to consider follow-on effects. It's like outsourcing all your manufacturing -- eventually you'll need something local and won't be able to get
by nitrogen 7y ago
You really have to consider follow-on effects. It's like outsourcing all your manufacturing -- eventually you'll need something local and won't be able to get it, and everyone local who could otherwise have helped will resent you for selling out your industry.
- pjc50 7y agoIsn't this the reverse? China has outsourced higher education to the West. What follow on effects are you referring to? Besides, students are typically non-local in any university town.
- nraynaud 7y agothey are a 1B people country, from their point of view, foreign education is a fringe anecdote, no country in the world would even be able to house a significant share of their students.
- HPsquared 7y agoThe elites are a far smaller cohort.
- nraynaud 7y agoI'm pretty sure you don't really learn Chinese law, Chinese state accounting, and make connections in the CCP by studying in the US either.
- baybal2 7y ago0.1% of 1.4B is still 1.4 millions
- nraynaud 7y agothere is also the fact that as seen from a lot of people in China, American universities are a way for bad students with money to get a degree they wouldn't get at Chinese universities.
- ThomPete 7y agoMany of them go back
- nitrogen 7y agoYou could also view it as the West offshoring its knowledge (if foreign students don't stay afterward, and/or the reduction in locals' abilities causes local economic stagnation).