Again, broad brush statements.
If you only knew how much funding these departments get, you’d see the point.
Not a broad brush at all.
It was bad 20 years ago. It isn’t better now.
The Chicoms pay full freight as students, grad students too. And it isn’t just that.
Do read the info on ‘ten thousand talents program’. That’s not the only one btw.
The confucius institutes for example.