I'm not against studying in the USA at all. If you are a commoner in China and can afford it, by all means, send your children to the West to study. If you are a leader of some other country, that is also okay.
But if you are the leader of an aspiring world superpower and you send your daughter to your no. 1 enemy country to study Bachelors', that really doesn't reflect well on your country. Like I said, it is okay to send her to do Masters or PHD in some technology field in USA because US is way ahead in technology. But we all know that a first degree nowadays is no a big deal. I am sure China's top universities have no problem delivering good quality bachelors programs.
But Bo Xilai was worst. He was an aspiring CPSC member (that means the top 5 leaders in China) and he sent his son to boarding school in UK (now we all know UK is like a small brother to the USA) - and his son broadcast this to the whole world in the Internet. If he were such some rich businessman in China, that wouldn't be a problem at all.
But if you are the leader of an aspiring world superpower and you send your daughter to your no. 1 enemy country to study Bachelors', that really doesn't reflect well on your country. Like I said, it is okay to send her to do Masters or PHD in some technology field in USA because US is way ahead in technology. But we all know that a first degree nowadays is no a big deal. I am sure China's top universities have no problem delivering good quality bachelors programs.
But Bo Xilai was worst. He was an aspiring CPSC member (that means the top 5 leaders in China) and he sent his son to boarding school in UK (now we all know UK is like a small brother to the USA) - and his son broadcast this to the whole world in the Internet. If he were such some rich businessman in China, that wouldn't be a problem at all.
Corruption aside, where your son's or daughter's education could be funded by a foreign investor, I see nothing wrong with sending your children overseas to study. Today's China still suffers from deficiencies in their key institutions.
Although the Chinese universities are quite good at the first degree level, they still lack the broad base discipline that the US universities provide or the comprehensiveness of the British education. And most of all the exposure that these overseas stays provide will be first hand experience for them to emulate when they return home. We often complain of PRCs disgusting behaviour as tourists in foreign lands. This, too, needs to be
learnt from more frequent travelling to foreign lands and attending international meetings.
In the past two centuries, from the world's dominant economic and military power to one where even a little Japan had the right to throw its weight around was directly a result of the refusal to take in outside influence and to learn from external newfound knowledge. This is slowly being changed.
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