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This may not be accurate, but I feel like the US benefited a lot from many foreigners knowing English. This does not seem to be the case for Chinese, though I imagine that will change.
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0: http://aqicn.org/city/shandong/caoxian/caoxianwenhuazhongxin...
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Well I guess the first step would be luring Chinese scientists currently in US back to China (many of those have US citizenship and would also be counted as US scientists)
I work with lots of Chinese scientists and they say they are never going back. They don't trust Chinese papers or labs at all.
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Where on earth did you get that from? Which part of the article, or any evidence at all, supports your statement? And in what situation do you think it's acceptable to write in such a way?
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This may not be accurate, but I feel like the US benefited a lot from many foreigners knowing English. This does not seem to be the case for Chinese, though I imagine that will change.
English is not the easiest language to learn, but Mandarin is among the hardest.
Frankly, it's embarrassing how an absolutist regime can create a sense of more on-the-ground intellectual freedom than can a supposedly free country. Socially enforced censorship of painfully obvious facts in the west has gotten out of control, and unless we place limits on our newfound authoritarian impulses, we're going to be out-competed. While it's true that we've been very successful for a long time, success bre…
Can you explain?
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This is fantastic news. Science will eventually benefit all of mankind even if the benefits are initially felt closer to where they're conducted. I welcome increased science funding regardless of who is doing it, particularly when we're talking about non-military scientific research. If this makes the US feel competitive and they increase funding state-side then so much the better. We'd all benefit from that too.
TLDR; China has started the The Thousand Talent program to recruit professors from all over the world: http://www.1000plan.org/en/ . Also, Chinese govt now offering international students scholarships to cover the cost if they enroll: https://www.scholarshipsads.com/china-scholarships/ .
Oh my, the name could hardly be more unfortunate as it evokes the "Let a 1000 flowers blossom" campaign. https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/226950.html