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To: D. Long who wrote (772463)	11/22/2022 1:18:25 PM
From: skinowski	1 Recommendation Recommended By J.B.C. Respond to of 793914

About Soviet scientists being invited to study in the U.S… a while back, I read a fascinating book by Svetlana Lokhova (the historian of Russian descent, living in London. She sued no other than Stephan Halfer - along with various news organizations - for telling people that she was a girlfriend of Gen Mike Flynn). Anyway, she writes about an engineering class at the MIT in 1931 - which was made up of NKVD agents. Those guys were the real thing - besides working for the spy agency, they were scientists and engineers in their own right. Smart and talented guys). Their job was to learn more about American aviation technology. To their surprise, they were received warmly, they made many friends, and learned a lot. Accomplished professors and aircraft manufacturers were happy to share their work with smart and curious MIT students. Their reports sent to the NKVD had an impact. She (lokhova) thinks that this helped the Soviets prepare for the WW2 - and to win it. She thinks this operation, actually, changed history. amazon.com Anyway, sorry for the side trip. About the Chinese talent. Whatever they accomplish in the US - inventions, patents - it all belongs to their employers - and represents US intellectual property. Can the Chinese make copies? Yes, but that would be illegal. “Dozens” of those people are nothing compared to their actual numbers. Pew pewresearch.org estimates that by 2060, the US Asian population will grow to 46 million - a significant proportion of them will be Chinese. By then, most of them will be US born. I think that whatever all this entails, this train already left the station. The techno Ginny is out of the bottle. A large number of top engineering schools in the world are in China. They’ve learned an enormous amount since the 90’s. The world will have to find a different approach to dealing with intellectual property.