In this education/economic cycle, with as many people sated by making their retirement living by franchising a Jack-in-the-Box, with the US economy essentially losing their otherwise potentially more effective brain-and/or-physically-oriented prowess to further wonders of (USA) nanotechnology, travelling the universe or feeding the world's population more efficiently, the pick-up for the slack growth in universities has had to come from foreign nationals, particularly the Chinese. These thereby soak up our best teachers' (well, such as they are) output, letting that well-educated potential fall off into the bit bucket in into the moneybags of the Chinese hierarchy.
I live in a big university town, and have long noted how the Chinese students' efforts are organized by their minders. They're all debriefed and directed in such a way as to spy out valuable information to a maximal efficiency. I won't hire them in my computer-related company any more, that's for sure!
HF
That makes sense.