• leo_da_vinci@lemmygrad.ml
    16·
    1 year ago

    It’s so toxic how they always talk about efforts to keep America the best this or the best that. They talk as if for them the priority is to do everything (even moraly wrong things) to make America be the best at everything, being human progress only a byproduct of this competition. They also talk as if America be the best at everything is necessary for the world to be “right”; as if this is something inherently good.

    • bobs_guns@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      171·
      1 year ago

      for a newspaper that says it wants to keep Chinese people here that’s a hell of a yellow peril illustration. they’d be a lot better off if they kept it simple and depicted the Chinese researcher as the gigachad and the American security agencies as the soy wojak

  • albigu@lemmygrad.ml
    131·
    1 year ago

    Conducting research in China is harder than it has been in years because of an increased emphasis there on ideology and national security, an ever-widening scope of topics deemed sensitive, decreasing academic freedom and, until they were ended last December, the smothering effect of nearly three years of zero-Covid policies.

    “Smothering” is not the word I’d want to use if I were a Yankee criticising China’s covid response. Everything there is ironically what has been happening in the USA and one of the main causes of their new brain drain. Why would somebody pay tuition fees, go through their racist immigration process and receive a low wage that doesn’t allow for a healthy life or even rent in order to go do study there, only to be a second class citizen?

    Once their net migration drops enough they’ll be facing a full on population decline. Can’t wait.

    • Water Bowl Slime@lemmygrad.ml
      6·
      1 year ago

      That’s why student loans are never gonna be forgiven - it’s their method of trapping people in the country. There’s no doubt that brain drain would be drastically higher if college grads could afford to leave