Hello David, <<If ever.... to be blunt I don't really see it in the students who come tot he US to study>>
... let me suggest you are wrong, for obvious reasons, the fact that you are not seeing the right folks, and because what you believe is simply too incredible given the foundation of truth
... <<ISI>> is part of the faulty signal processing issue
... Try MIT and Caltech, close by, or Qinghua and Beida, further away, for indications of what must be. It is simply a numbers game, as in the prettiest girls for hire are in Tokyo, where the money is, and when the money shift, so do the girls.
The PRC Green Card system will go into effect soon enough, and all that would be required is for the US to enhance the crackdown on ethnic Chinese scientists, which is progressing well courtesy of FBI, and then the obvious happens.
Retreating to the fortress of "basic science" is false salvation, because in basic science, there is even less of a fortress than normal industrial R&D, because it, repeat after me, "is on the Internet, and protected by no one".
Chugs, J |