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Americans Don’t Know China—and That’s a Huge Problem
Fortune ^ | 08/16/2018 | By BEN HARBURG

Posted on 08/17/2018 6:32:28 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

President Trump has accused China of intellectual property theft, forced technology transfer, protectionism, and driving a trade deficit. But these disputes obscure an embarrassing reality: America has voluntarily ceded its intellectual arbitrage to China by opening the U.S. up for total download without even attempting to return the favor.

Information flows abundantly and freely eastward. Little returns west. Chinese investors, students, government officials, and corporations have mapped every inch of America. The same cannot be said for Americans.

But this situation is not actually due to protectionism by the Chinese state. Rather, Americans have voluntarily chosen isolation.

The flood of Chinese students into the U.S. has accelerated at a blinding pace, with a nearly 650% increase between 1999 and 2017. From 2015 to 2016, China sent over 328,000 students to America, while the U.S. sent roughly 11,000 to China. America sent around the same number of students to Ireland, whose economy is less than 3% the size of China’s.

American students have voluntarily eschewed China, cementing a generation ill prepared to effectively collaborate, compete, and respond to its rise. An estimated 300-400 million Chinese students (about 25%) are studying English, while only about 200,000 U.S. students (roughly .06%) are currently studying some form of Chinese.

While trade balances and import tariffs might be highly controversial and fiercely contested, this intellectual imbalance has no significant opposition within the U.S. China’s door is open, but few Americans will venture through.

Popular U.S. media perpetuates constant negative narratives about China: ghost cities, real estate bubbles, pollution, corruption. While many of these problems are real, the predominately negative coverage drowns out the positive elements of life in China and its abundant economic opportunities. In doing so, the media dissuades America’s students, as well as business and political leaders, from learning more about the country.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Society
KEYWORDS: brutal; business; china; communist; dictatorship; humanrights; tariffs; trade

1 posted on 08/17/2018 6:32:28 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Fair argument, ignoring the later idiocy. Fine. Next up, drastic limits on student visas.


2 posted on 08/17/2018 6:37:02 AM PDT by TheZMan (I am a secessionist.)
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To: SeekAndFind

This is on point, and it begins with schooling... the agenda over the last thirty years in the US has been to learn and acknowledge our past “social” mistakes. We no longer study our own history in depth, nor is there a curriculum producing curiosity about foreign cultures and history period.
Nations like China can produce national policies to encourage study because it is after all still a totalitarian state.

They are winning the information is knowledge race.


3 posted on 08/17/2018 6:40:08 AM PDT by Katya
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To: SeekAndFind

Asian students are a special kind of risk for America.

Likely, most hacks of intellectual property is perpetuating by a student with a thumb drive in his pocket.


4 posted on 08/17/2018 6:46:23 AM PDT by cicero2k
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To: SeekAndFind

During our better years of national loyalty and respect for our fellow Americans, would many American parents have sent their sons and daughters to the Soviet Union? Probably not.


5 posted on 08/17/2018 6:50:30 AM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: SeekAndFind

Just up within the last day or so.

China police detain man for asking why can’t Taiwan be called a country
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-taiwan-internet/china-police-detain-man-for-asking-why-cant-taiwan-be-called-a-country-idUSKBN1L210O

Chinese bombers likely training for US strikes: Pentagon
https://www.yahoo.com/news/chinese-bombers-likely-training-us-strikes-pentagon-194141619.html

GOOGLE STAFF TELL BOSSES CHINA CENSORSHIP IS “MORAL AND ETHICAL” CRISIS
https://theintercept.com/2018/08/16/google-china-crisis-staff-dragonfly/


6 posted on 08/17/2018 6:54:05 AM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: familyop

“China police detain man for asking why can’t Taiwan be called a country”

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The dumbo deliberately violated the law.


7 posted on 08/17/2018 7:12:47 AM PDT by granada
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To: familyop

“GOOGLE STAFF TELL BOSSES CHINA CENSORSHIP IS “MORAL AND ETHICAL” CRISIS”

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Hypocrites.


8 posted on 08/17/2018 7:14:32 AM PDT by granada
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To: SeekAndFind

In general we in this country have a terrible sense of tunnel-vision when it comes to the rest of the world. It has come back to bite us multiple times, as we have paid a high price for naivete in dealing with China, Islam, etc.

Ignorance is not bliss.


9 posted on 08/17/2018 7:19:54 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: granada

Globalists are telling us with their usual slippery rhetoric to Kowtow before the Empire, until our freedoms bleed out from our foreheads. The globalists loyally take their orders from their masters.

“Beijing has begun ordering foreign companies to label Taiwan as part of China on their websites...”

China police detain man for asking why can’t Taiwan be called a country
Reuters
Reporting by Ben Blanchard; Editing by Robert Birsel
AUGUST 17, 2018
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-taiwan-internet/china-police-detain-man-for-asking-why-cant-taiwan-be-called-a-country-idUSKBN1L210O


10 posted on 08/17/2018 7:29:35 AM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: SeekAndFind

Americans by and large tend to engage in fantasies about China and will twist their thinking into truly bizarre pretzels to maintain those fantasies.


11 posted on 08/17/2018 7:37:27 AM PDT by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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To: SeekAndFind

This was not a result of too few Americans being brainwashed in China. It was a result of too many American boys and men of European descent being rendered fatherless by the divorce/cohabitation regime and being shunted out of higher education in many ways for the sake of political correctness (computer science and communications).

Botched CIA Communications System Helped Blow Cover of Chinese Agents
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3679965/posts


12 posted on 08/17/2018 7:46:08 AM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: SeekAndFind

China is also buying US rental property (residential and commercial).


13 posted on 08/17/2018 7:55:58 AM PDT by a fool in paradise
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To: a fool in paradise

RE: China is also buying US rental property (residential and commercial).

.... And in Australia, and in New Zealand, and in Canada....


14 posted on 08/17/2018 8:04:34 AM PDT by SeekAndFind (look at Michigan, it will)
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To: cicero2k

“Likely, most hacks of intellectual property is perpetuating by a student with a thumb drive in his pocket.”

Actually, American corporations hire Chinese. I’ve known far too many Chinese in highly sensitive, yet, not classified, projects.

Indians are notorious for stealing intellectual property. They have no regard for IP.

I knew several Indian staffing companies that demanded their employees send all their work materials from their client companies back to India.


15 posted on 08/17/2018 8:13:29 AM PDT by CodeToad ( Hating on Trump is hating on me and America!)
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