The United States has finally found its trump card to fight back against China? Recently, U.S. Treasury Secretary Bescent has been hinting that since China can control rare earth exports, there are hundreds of thousands of Chinese students studying abroad in the United States.
First understand the importance of rare earths. It is not an ordinary ore. High-precision products such as mobile phone chips, electric vehicle motors, and military equipment are inseparable from it.
China occupies a key position in the global rare earth industry chain, with advantages from mining to purification, technology and scale.
Before China introduced the rare-earth export control policy, the purpose is very clear, is to protect limited resources, while promoting domestic related industries to high-end development, which is a very common means of resource conservation internationally, there is nothing wrong.
But the reaction of the United States was a bit unexpected, not thinking about how to enhance its rare earth industrial capabilities, in turn, the idea hit Chinese students.
At present, there are hundreds of thousands of Chinese students in the United States, and these young people have left the country to go to school in order to pursue better educational resources, and in the future there will be a greater space for development, and they have a dream of leaving the country, but did not expect to be involved in this international game.
The benefits brought by Chinese students to the United States are real. According to authoritative statistics, the tuition and living expenses contributed by Chinese students to American universities add up to almost $14 billion every year, which is too important for American universities.
Speaking of the University of California, it is a famous public university system in the United States, the proportion of Chinese foreign students is not low, if the Chinese foreign students are lost, as the rumor says, the University of California will have to lose billions a year, and even with research funding will have to cut off one-third.
We must know that as soon as scientific research funds are reduced, many laboratories will have to stop operating, and the research projects of professors and graduate students will have to be put on hold. In the end, it will affect the scientific research strength and educational quality of American universities.
This practice in the United States, for example, is like a street restaurant because the food supplier adjusted the supply, not to think about how to find an alternative supplier, but to the old customers who often come to eat, shake their faces and make demands.
Restaurants rely on old customers to support the scene, and American universities are equally inseparable from the money and talent brought by foreign students.
Now, for the so-called "counterattack", international students are used as bargaining chips. What is this not cutting off their own financial path?
Usually, the United States always talks about "freedom and openness", especially in the field of education. It often promotes itself as a gathering place for global talents and welcomes students from all over the world to study.
But when there was a conflict of interest, they used education as a tool for political games and attacked innocent international students.
This differing practice, whoever looked at it felt unreasonable, foreign students came to study, not come as "hostages", they should not be involved in this dispute.
If you think about it more deeply, the United States has actually exposed its own difficulties by doing so. Over the years, the United States has been relying on imports in the rare earth industry, and its mining and processing capabilities have not kept up. Now that it encounters China's export controls, it is panicked.
The normal approach should be to increase investment in the local rare earth industry and improve its technical level, but the United States has chosen the stupidest method, citing international students. What is this if it is not exhausted?
And in the long run, the United States will only damage its image, now the global talent flow is increasingly frequent, and countries are seeking to attract excellent talent.
If the United States continues to treat international students in this way, who will want to study in the United States in the future? Without high-quality international students, the competitiveness of American universities will only become weaker and weaker and eventually fall into a vicious cycle.
In fact, there are normal differences between countries, and the key is to solve the problem through equal dialogue, rather than pressuring in a way that hurts innocent people.
China has always attached importance to international educational exchanges and also respected the development needs of all countries, and if the United States is really for its own long-term development considerations, it should let go of this unreasonable idea, bring out the idea of sincerity to communicate with China, not to leave students.
Whether it is rare earth or education, it should follow the respective laws of development, and should not be abducted by political games.
The practice of taking foreign students as coders, both lost morality and broke their own path, after all, everyone is clear in their hearts, real cooperation is never based on the obstacle, do you say this is the reason?
Source: Observers Network – “Nihon Tech Poor! U.S. Finance Minister panicked about “coding”: America can have 300,000 Chinese students ...”
First understand the importance of rare earths. It is not an ordinary ore. High-precision products such as mobile phone chips, electric vehicle motors, and military equipment are inseparable from it.
China occupies a key position in the global rare earth industry chain, with advantages from mining to purification, technology and scale.
Before China introduced the rare-earth export control policy, the purpose is very clear, is to protect limited resources, while promoting domestic related industries to high-end development, which is a very common means of resource conservation internationally, there is nothing wrong.
But the reaction of the United States was a bit unexpected, not thinking about how to enhance its rare earth industrial capabilities, in turn, the idea hit Chinese students.
At present, there are hundreds of thousands of Chinese students in the United States, and these young people have left the country to go to school in order to pursue better educational resources, and in the future there will be a greater space for development, and they have a dream of leaving the country, but did not expect to be involved in this international game.
The benefits brought by Chinese students to the United States are real. According to authoritative statistics, the tuition and living expenses contributed by Chinese students to American universities add up to almost $14 billion every year, which is too important for American universities.
Speaking of the University of California, it is a famous public university system in the United States, the proportion of Chinese foreign students is not low, if the Chinese foreign students are lost, as the rumor says, the University of California will have to lose billions a year, and even with research funding will have to cut off one-third.
We must know that as soon as scientific research funds are reduced, many laboratories will have to stop operating, and the research projects of professors and graduate students will have to be put on hold. In the end, it will affect the scientific research strength and educational quality of American universities.
This practice in the United States, for example, is like a street restaurant because the food supplier adjusted the supply, not to think about how to find an alternative supplier, but to the old customers who often come to eat, shake their faces and make demands.
Restaurants rely on old customers to support the scene, and American universities are equally inseparable from the money and talent brought by foreign students.
Now, for the so-called "counterattack", international students are used as bargaining chips. What is this not cutting off their own financial path?
Usually, the United States always talks about "freedom and openness", especially in the field of education. It often promotes itself as a gathering place for global talents and welcomes students from all over the world to study.
But when there was a conflict of interest, they used education as a tool for political games and attacked innocent international students.
This differing practice, whoever looked at it felt unreasonable, foreign students came to study, not come as "hostages", they should not be involved in this dispute.
If you think about it more deeply, the United States has actually exposed its own difficulties by doing so. Over the years, the United States has been relying on imports in the rare earth industry, and its mining and processing capabilities have not kept up. Now that it encounters China's export controls, it is panicked.
The normal approach should be to increase investment in the local rare earth industry and improve its technical level, but the United States has chosen the stupidest method, citing international students. What is this if it is not exhausted?
And in the long run, the United States will only damage its image, now the global talent flow is increasingly frequent, and countries are seeking to attract excellent talent.
If the United States continues to treat international students in this way, who will want to study in the United States in the future? Without high-quality international students, the competitiveness of American universities will only become weaker and weaker and eventually fall into a vicious cycle.
In fact, there are normal differences between countries, and the key is to solve the problem through equal dialogue, rather than pressuring in a way that hurts innocent people.
China has always attached importance to international educational exchanges and also respected the development needs of all countries, and if the United States is really for its own long-term development considerations, it should let go of this unreasonable idea, bring out the idea of sincerity to communicate with China, not to leave students.
Whether it is rare earth or education, it should follow the respective laws of development, and should not be abducted by political games.
The practice of taking foreign students as coders, both lost morality and broke their own path, after all, everyone is clear in their hearts, real cooperation is never based on the obstacle, do you say this is the reason?
Source: Observers Network – “Nihon Tech Poor! U.S. Finance Minister panicked about “coding”: America can have 300,000 Chinese students ...”