The US is so fucking cooked if international researchers choose to go to China. A lot of our domestic research comes from international labor:
"40 percent of current doctoral students and 53 percent of postdocs in STEM and social sciences do not hold permanent status in this country. International students make up almost 35 percent of the Ph.D. population in the United States, and that number will probably only increase in the coming years given the looming enrollment cliff and projected decrease in numbers of domestic students."
Indeed, US education system is absolute garbage and the cost of higher education is prohibitively expensive. If global talent starts finding new destinations, it's curtains for US.
The US is so fucking cooked if international researchers choose to go to China. A lot of our domestic research comes from international labor:
"40 percent of current doctoral students and 53 percent of postdocs in STEM and social sciences do not hold permanent status in this country. International students make up almost 35 percent of the Ph.D. population in the United States, and that number will probably only increase in the coming years given the looming enrollment cliff and projected decrease in numbers of domestic students."
https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/career-advice/carpe-careers/2024/01/22/new-model-support-international-phds-and-postdocs
And China's surpassed the US in number of publications in high impact journals since at least 2018.
https://www.nature.com/nature-index/country-outputs/generate/all/global
Indeed, US education system is absolute garbage and the cost of higher education is prohibitively expensive. If global talent starts finding new destinations, it's curtains for US.