So why the strategic mistrust?
Wednesday, April 4, 2012 at 11:12AM WSJ story and chart about how "Chinese applicants flood U.S. graduate schools."
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 studens. The thinking, say school administrators, is that international student 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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If we are going to see a transformation in Asia it will come from the experiences of the tens of thousands of students from across the breadth of Asia, who hopefully in the future will be offered a "Green Card" to go with their diploma, or at least return home with an afinity for US ideals tucked inside their portfolio.
Here in Southern California, the University of California, Irvine (UCI) is half jokingly known as the University of China and India, for it's 47% enrollment of Asian students, who have led UCI into the legion of top universities in the country with their academic proficency.
It's 'American Exceptionalism' and very many people believe in it. China becoming a greater power than the US is regarded as a threat to that exceptionalism.
It will be hard to put that to bed. Good luck.