funny how this article doesn’t mention that universities in China are improving and expanding while in :amerikkka: academia is atrophying

I mean, American Academia was never stellar to begin with. What we lacked in quality, we made up for in quantity. But the academic system has been rife with diploma mills and make-work degree plans since at least the 80s. One of the bigger upshots of the Biden loan forgiveness plan was how he went after a bunch of shitty for-profit tech schools in the process.

Chinese students weren't moving to the US to go to ITT Tech or U. Phoenix. They were coming here to go to Berkley and MIT and UT Austin and Rutgers. As far as I'm aware, all those top-flight schools are still doing about as well as they've always done.

But when we're openly antagonistic towards Chinese students, why would they continue to transfer? We used to make an effort to encourage international transfers and now we don't. We used to have domestic universities form partnerships with East Asian schools. Now we don't. We burned all our bridges, so of course now nobody is coming across.