An even bigger problem is that too many Chinese students are still choosing to go to the US, UK or Australia to study. This is extremely dangerous because these people then go back to China with their heads full of neoliberal ideology and west-worship, especially in neoliberal elitist cesspools like Harvard, Stanford, Oxford, Cambridge, or, god forbid, Yale. Even the “ideal” scenario in which these people choose to stay in the West and don’t become a fifth column in China, it still represents brain drain for China. China needs to start treating this as a critical national security issue, because it is.
An even bigger problem is that too many Chinese students are still choosing to go to the US, UK or Australia to study. This is extremely dangerous because these people then go back to China with their heads full of neoliberal ideology and west-worship, especially in neoliberal elitist cesspools like Harvard, Stanford, Oxford, Cambridge, or, god forbid, Yale. Even the “ideal” scenario in which these people choose to stay in the West and don’t become a fifth column in China, it still represents brain drain for China. China needs to start treating this as a critical national security issue, because it is.