Musings: Who gets in, China or U.S.?
The Harvard University campus in Cambridge, Mass. Credit: AP/Charles Krupa
We don’t need foreign students flooding our elite universities.
Every spot a foreign student takes deprives an American from that educational opportunity. The Chinese government sends its best and brightest looking for an American education at graduate and postgraduate levels. These students then return to China to help the Chinese government possibly overcome American influence throughout the world.
If some call the United States a laughingstock, it is because of decisions like these. An old, discredited theory, particularly prevalent decades ago, was that Chinese students being educated in the United States would bring their newfound love of democracy back to China. How often has that happened?
In fact, as the situation in Hong Kong has shown us, China’s regime there is getting more repressive by the year.
Let’s discontinue helping them do so by stopping to educate their future autocratic leaders.
— Doug Heimowitz, Jericho
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