WSJ story and chart about how “Chinese applicants flood U.S. graduate schools.”
My Comment: I’m troubled by the pressures that appear from time to time that imply we should build up our military so we can effectivly counter the threat posed by China. Currently, I have a Chinese exchange student working with me as an intern this academic quarter. She is soon returning to China to complete her undergraduate degree. Her plans are then to come back to the US, to go to graduate school, get a green card and bring her parents over here. She is the product of the one family, one child rule which, while now reversed, will present serious demographic challenges for China in the next few decades.
So I’m trying to do my part to somehow influence the discussion in this country. My hope and expectation is that we will be a model for China as she slowly moves toward a more democratic society, while at the same time, relieving us of some of the responsibility as the world’s policeman. I want a stable, economically viable future for my children and grandchildren, with a world increasingly void of armed conflict.
Of interest in the analysis:
The rate of growth in China is due in part to a concerted effort by some U.S. schools to attract Chinese students. The thinking, say school administrators, is that international students who stay in academia will connect U.S. schools with new research partners, while those entering the corporate world may become clients of business schools’ executive education programs.
Would that the Pentagon was this strategic in its thinking.
No, I’m not just talking about Chinese officers in our professional military educational institutions. I’m talking about purposefully seeking to raise future partners instead of indulging in this feel-good strategic “pivot” that is already being handled by arms exports to China’s neighbors.
Amidst all that, we should be extending a hand – not a missile shield.
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