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When the US does it it’s part of the great melting pot experiment. When China does it its luring. Yes I see.
It would be amazing to have the former colonisers experience brain drain.
Already happens internally in the U.S. Unless you’re working at a university or a few select employers, educated workers have every incentive to leave rural America, and the smallest states altogether.
人往高处走，水往低处流
can’t wait :)
The US’s scientific programs are only sustained by poaching the best and brightest from around the world, and the opportunities for long-term residency and citizenship in the US is certainly part of that draw. China’s domestic science base is more than competitive with the US, and would agree that reforms to immigration would shift the balance further in their favor.
the US immigration system is such a shit show it’s hard to argue it’s a positive draw but people are willing to put up with it because the pay in the US is so much better than anywhere else. Look no further than people immigrating to Canada first so they can get on a visa that’s less painful while they wait in line for a decade to get a green card.
Not only is the pay better, but everywhere else research is so underfunded that the US economy, engorged by imperial extraction is one of the places where the best equipment/teams are. So if you want to be among the best of your field, you’re pretty much forced to go to the US
the best equipment/teams are
no longer true even at top tier universities.
Please Xi, I’ve been reading genetic engineering journals every day
Pls. Horticulture is a real science
Thats wassup
The US is so fucking cooked if international researchers choose to go to China. A lot of our domestic research comes from international labor:
“40 percent of current doctoral students and 53 percent of postdocs in STEM and social sciences do not hold permanent status in this country. International students make up almost 35 percent of the Ph.D. population in the United States, and that number will probably only increase in the coming years given the looming enrollment cliff and projected decrease in numbers of domestic students.”
And China’s surpassed the US in number of publications in high impact journals since at least 2018.
https://www.nature.com/nature-index/country-outputs/generate/all/global
Indeed, US education system is absolute garbage and the cost of higher education is prohibitively expensive. If global talent starts finding new destinations, it’s curtains for US.
Pls
hell yeah
I’ll be whatever they want me to be if they let me in
