Plus we educate every one of our enemies while Americans can’t afford school.
Yeah, but we’re nice guys. Everyone loves us...
Personal story: years ago when going to college and before having any association to the DoD (Besides through family) I went as a student to a German school in Darmstadt. At the time the school was called THD, today TUD. I was amazed at what I saw going on. You had guys (usually younger men that were a bit older than the rest of the student population) who were from the PRC attending the university, all in scientific and engineering tracks. When talking to them for a while you almost always eventually found out that they were actually still in the Chinese military, simply on a break and in civilian cloths getting an education in Germany. One of them “coincidentally” worked at Frankfurt Airport adjacent to Rhein Main AFB, so did another, and some other ones worked in other locations which also were coincidentally close to US military installations. I didn’t say or do anything, would not have mattered anyhow. I figured maybe I’m just reading to much into it. But this wasn’t a single case, and intentionally I went out of my way a little bit to talk to a few of these guys and sort of collect on them (for my own reasons) and there was an undeniable pattern (all military trained men, all in science/engineering fields, all near US instalations Rhein Main/Ramstein/Lindsey Air Station. Personally, I have no doubt that what the Chinese are doing is using the international student exchange program as a way to train their military officers in science and engineering fields. Furthermore, there is no doubt that these guys are also used as collection sources while abroad. But that’s just my personal analysis.
“Plus we educate every one of our enemies while Americans can’t afford school.”
When you’re educating half of Mexico the funds sometimes get a little thin.