• @CriticalResist8@lemmygrad.ml
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    3 years ago

    They’re not even hiding it any more, there was this line in the report:

    relaxing immigration laws to help attract talent from abroad, including an effort to increase a “brain drain” from China

    This is more imperialism in the truest sense of the word, forcing open new markets to stave off the crisis of capitalism.

    I’m not entirely sure what to think of this but it’s very clear this is a second cold war except now the US is getting its ass kicked. They talk about preventing China from becoming the leader in computer chips, and to do this they hope to get tax credits. The commission staffed almost entirely by capitalists wants capitalism to be easier for them, what a surprise. This is the kind of reactionary, ancient thinking that will precipitate their downfall. China will keep planning their economy and responding as things change, and they will keep growing. It’s simple really: without imperialism, the USA is done for and it will be either socialism or barbarism. And their response to their dwindling power is to do more of the same that they’ve done so far. More budget for the army, more weapons, more conflicts.

    Also always remember this: The US is the only country that consistently refuses to sign a no-first-strike policy, because if they did they couldn’t threaten to use nuclear weapons to submit weaker countries. They are also the only country that has used them, twice.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OP
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      53 years ago

      At this point I think US lost the technological edge, and I don’t really see any path for them to regain it. The reality of the situation is that China has a higher population and a better education system that’s freely available to all the citizens. Meanwhile, plenty of people teaching in China got their education at top Western universities. China outputs something like 8 to 1 STEM graduates compared to US now.

      So, China doesn’t really need to attract external talent because they’re developing their own talent locally. At the same time western companies have brought all their know how to China where they do manufacturing and China is now able to do everything the West can do including their own chip manufacturing.

      Furthermore, combination of xenophobia in the west and declining economic conditions mean that it’s highly unlikely that any top talent will be poached from China going forward.

      I completely agree with you that US will cling to imperialism because that’s all they know, and unfortunately that will lead to an increasingly volatile situation going forward. Personally, at this point I’m convinced that the best thing for the world would be if US saw an internal collapse in the near future.

      • lemmygrabber
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        23 years ago

        US also has a ridiculously high number of foreign postgrad students. Their education system is not sustainable. Sooner or later it will give in.

        • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OP
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          23 years ago

          Yeah, I think the whole model is premised on the idea that everybody wants to live to US. However a lot of educated people are increasingly seeing US in a negative light. There is already some reverse brain drain starting to happen with people moving to EU and Canada. I only expect this process to accelerate going forward.