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Marduk112 t1_iww557t wrote

Reply to comment by alexp8771 in The Only Way the U.S. Can Win the Tech War with China by Vailhem

I think that would be a mistake. I have seen firsthand what happens when affluent Chinese students travel abroad - they either: a) don't want to leave/stay in the West, and brain-drain/divert resources from China, or b) they go back and tell their friends and family about the political freedoms they enjoyed abroad, an implicit threat to the information control the CCP has over the country.

Both are net positives for the West, and China knows it. Corporate or research espionage is another matter altogether and by and large Chinese students are not engaged in that.

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Effective_Spring_803 t1_iww5hqp wrote

>an implicit threat to the information control the CCP has over the country.

In 2019, 170 million Chinese people left the country for a foreign holiday. There is no "information control", you made that up in your head

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Marduk112 t1_iwx0zhu wrote

And how many has left now? And what do you call the great firewall? You must be living under a rock.

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