If you get a scholarship from your country to study abroad I think it is fair, and in fact sensible, that a condition be that you should come back afterwards.

If you get a scholarship from your country to study abroad I think it is fair, and in fact sensible, that a condition be that you should come back afterwards. As for swearing allegiance to the party, in China the party is the state so this is effectively swearing allegiance to the PRC and therefore, in context, not that different from US school children swearing allegiance to the USA. Universities and countries need to choose: do they want foreign students and the fees they pay, or do they want to keep knowledge in-country (which has never worked).