As an aside, this article was written by one of my professors. If you have questions about the article, I'd be happy to try to pass them along.
Over the last few months, an elaborate plan to ensure China prevails in the global economic competition has taken shape. The plan’s chief architects, however, are not China’s leaders—they are U.S. politicians. The Trump administration’s cuts to federal agencies are undermining the United States’ ability to innovate, the driver of its economic growth. Hostile immigration policies are making it harder for U.S. firms, industries, and universities to attract the best ideas and talent from around the world and leverage them to boost America’s prosperity. Wild threats of tariffs and restrictions on foreign supply chains are terrifying investors, who are beginning to sit on their capital and look for new opportunities away from the chaos. China, meanwhile, is becoming more competitive in the very fields the United States is kneecapping.
Washington needs to rediscover the value of innovation. Every area of future economic growth in which the United States is poised to lead—such as software, AI, oil and gas drilling, robotics, and electric vehicle production—depends on innovations that are impossible to nurture without reliable long-term support from the federal government. Both U.S. political parties once saw public investment in scientific education, training, and innovation as central to the country’s future prosperity. Today, neither party reliably understands or champions that message. Instead, they adopt well-intentioned but misguided bipartisan policies aimed at cutting the United States’ dependence on China and join together to bash Beijing, driving the rest of the world toward greater reliance on China.
Walling off the Chinese economy from the West will fail. Washington has no choice but to participate in a globalized economy it can no longer unilaterally control. The United States has spent decades and trillions of dollars to build the world’s best innovation system. That system, in turn, has become the primary source of the country’s economic and military strength. Stripping it for parts just as China is seeking to build an innovation apparatus that rivals the United States’ would be suicidal.
As an aside, this article was written by one of my professors. If you have questions about the article, I'd be happy to try to pass them along.
Wow, this is one of the most well-rounded yet easily digestible articles I've read in a long time. If he teaches as well as he writes, you have an outstanding professor!
Wow, this is one of the most well-rounded yet easily digestible articles I've read in a long time. If he teaches as well as he writes, you have an outstanding professor!
Oh yeah, he had a great class I really enjoyed it! The topic he taught on was Policy Making Processes, about the politics behind the scenes of how policy is created and implemented.
Oh yeah, he had a great class I really enjoyed it! The topic he taught on was Policy Making Processes, about the politics behind the scenes of how policy is created and implemented.
Our collective psyche geared towards short-termism is really rotting our brains. All of these problems are breaking a delicate system that took generations to hone. Like the recent article about...
Our collective psyche geared towards short-termism is really rotting our brains. All of these problems are breaking a delicate system that took generations to hone.
Like the recent article about Colorado river groundwater depletion, there are solutions to these problems, but it requires taking a charitable and unselfish view of the wider ecosystem even when it's not profitable in the here-and-now.
I feel like the only way to truly fix this is a grassroots movement that re-emphasises the value of education and critical thinking, but a lot of people seem happy to let AI do the thinking for us.
My question is what do you do when ethnic Chinese with deep ties to the country become potential economic, political, and military security liabilities. Sure, anyone - to include a country's own...
My question is what do you do when ethnic Chinese with deep ties to the country become potential economic, political, and military security liabilities. Sure, anyone - to include a country's own citizens - is a potential liability but most other nations don't globally staff covert police stations where they can persecute their citizens and relatives of those citizens and induce them to espionage through coercive measures. When the efforts and violations become so blatant isn't the prudent course of action to begin restricting an adversarial country's access to your institutions?
And to be sure, I'm talking only about Chinese who are particularly vulnerable to coercion by the Chines state (which in my opinion applies to any Chinese citizen). There is absolutely no reason to routinely profile Singaporeans or Taiwanese, as two examples, for simply being ethnically Chinese.
Maybe I'm just reading what you're saying too uncharitably, but I don't think ethnic profiling is the way to solve the USA's future innovation problem.
Maybe I'm just reading what you're saying too uncharitably, but I don't think ethnic profiling is the way to solve the USA's future innovation problem.
I am going to have to say it's uncharitable but I don't take any offence. I specifically tried to preempt this interpretation by calling out there is no need to ethnically profile. There are...
I am going to have to say it's uncharitable but I don't take any offence. I specifically tried to preempt this interpretation by calling out there is no need to ethnically profile. There are millions of Chinese without deep connections to China, their Chinese heritage should play no bearing on how the US views them.
What do you want to do? Make a big camp and move everyone in there so you can keep an eye on them? edit: I meant that half snarky half serious but really I mean that's what lead to Japanese...
What do you want to do? Make a big camp and move everyone in there so you can keep an eye on them?
edit: I meant that half snarky half serious but really I mean that's what lead to Japanese Internment in World War 2, "oh we can't trust the perfidious Japanese, what if they have allegiance to the emperor", meanwhile they're just immigrant farmers making a life for their families. I don't know what you would propose that wouldn't be the same kind of thing, innocent people getting wrapped up, many who have no ties to China or left decades ago.
Did you read the article? Were obviously only talking about restricting visas for Chinese citizens and as I pointed out to another uncharitable interpretation- I specifically say that there is no...
Did you read the article? Were obviously only talking about restricting visas for Chinese citizens and as I pointed out to another uncharitable interpretation- I specifically say that there is no need to racially profile people for being Chinese. Don’t confound the ethnicity with the citizenship
My comment asks one very specific question. Please go back and read it again
As an aside, this article was written by one of my professors. If you have questions about the article, I'd be happy to try to pass them along.
Wow, this is one of the most well-rounded yet easily digestible articles I've read in a long time. If he teaches as well as he writes, you have an outstanding professor!
Oh yeah, he had a great class I really enjoyed it! The topic he taught on was Policy Making Processes, about the politics behind the scenes of how policy is created and implemented.
Our collective psyche geared towards short-termism is really rotting our brains. All of these problems are breaking a delicate system that took generations to hone.
Like the recent article about Colorado river groundwater depletion, there are solutions to these problems, but it requires taking a charitable and unselfish view of the wider ecosystem even when it's not profitable in the here-and-now.
I feel like the only way to truly fix this is a grassroots movement that re-emphasises the value of education and critical thinking, but a lot of people seem happy to let AI do the thinking for us.
This is what capitalism does to us. Only once people agree to try a new way of living will this problem be solved.
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My question is what do you do when ethnic Chinese with deep ties to the country become potential economic, political, and military security liabilities. Sure, anyone - to include a country's own citizens - is a potential liability but most other nations don't globally staff covert police stations where they can persecute their citizens and relatives of those citizens and induce them to espionage through coercive measures. When the efforts and violations become so blatant isn't the prudent course of action to begin restricting an adversarial country's access to your institutions?
And to be sure, I'm talking only about Chinese who are particularly vulnerable to coercion by the Chines state (which in my opinion applies to any Chinese citizen). There is absolutely no reason to routinely profile Singaporeans or Taiwanese, as two examples, for simply being ethnically Chinese.
Maybe I'm just reading what you're saying too uncharitably, but I don't think ethnic profiling is the way to solve the USA's future innovation problem.
I am going to have to say it's uncharitable but I don't take any offence. I specifically tried to preempt this interpretation by calling out there is no need to ethnically profile. There are millions of Chinese without deep connections to China, their Chinese heritage should play no bearing on how the US views them.
What do you want to do? Make a big camp and move everyone in there so you can keep an eye on them?
edit: I meant that half snarky half serious but really I mean that's what lead to Japanese Internment in World War 2, "oh we can't trust the perfidious Japanese, what if they have allegiance to the emperor", meanwhile they're just immigrant farmers making a life for their families. I don't know what you would propose that wouldn't be the same kind of thing, innocent people getting wrapped up, many who have no ties to China or left decades ago.
Did you read the article? Were obviously only talking about restricting visas for Chinese citizens and as I pointed out to another uncharitable interpretation- I specifically say that there is no need to racially profile people for being Chinese. Don’t confound the ethnicity with the citizenship
My comment asks one very specific question. Please go back and read it again