Reply #60: Here's WHY

[Riktor]

1) Taking people from China and educating them here gives them the opportunity to learn about the United States and its people, and thus shattering any notions impressed upon them by a heavily propagandized government.

2) Educating people from China builds academic networks. As those networks strengthen, academics in the United States and China become mutually interdependent, and mutually interdependent nations do not go to war.

3) Social reconstruction needs the support of an educated middle or upper class in order to succeed. Educating Chinese students in the United States gives them a taste for freedoms that are not afforded to them in their native land. With any luck, they will take what they've learned of a relatively open society back to their homeland and seek to enact changes.