Posted on 01/28/2023 6:56:08 PM PST by SeekAndFind
The old saying is that “he who pays the piper calls the tune.” That is, whoever is paying the largest share controls what’s being said, and nowhere is this more true than in academia. An anecdote in the new book by former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo makes this clear, for he describes MIT’s fealty to Chinese dollars, something that silenced a speech by the then Secretary of State.
Chinese parents like sending their children to American colleges. By the peak year of 2019-2020, before COVID hit, 372,532 Chinese students were studying at U.S. colleges and universities. That number, obviously, dropped a bit with COVID (down to 290,086 in the 2021-2022 academic year), but there’s no reason to believe it won’t bounce back again.
The cool thing about foreign nationals is that they pay cash. There are no discounts and scholarships to disrupt the money flowing to the Chinese students’ chosen colleges. Instead, these students pay the full tuition amount, no matter how ludicrous it is.
However, unlike American dollars, which colleges take for granted (whether from governments, institutions, or individuals), college administrators must be careful to keep the Chinese happy, or the money dries up. (Stanford, coincidentally or not, expelled Steven Mosher in the early 1980s after the Chinese went ballistic when he dared to reveal China’s forced abortions.) Mike Pompeo’s recently published (probable pre-presidential campaign) book, Never Give an Inch: Fighting for the America I Love, reveals that the “keep China happy” policy controlled MIT.
I haven’t read Pompeo’s book, but Douglas Murray did. In an essay in the New York Post, Murray notes that most media outlets have focused obsessively on any gossipy tidbit that Pompeo dropped about his time in the Trump administration, from Trump himself to John Bolton, to foreign leaders
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Murray ignores the gossip and focuses on Pompeo’s description of why, despite being America’s Secretary of State, a position of key importance in international politics, he got canceled at MIT.
As a reminder, Murray explains that Pompeo, like Trump himself, recognized China as our greatest geopolitical enemy, both in economic terms and in terms of potential military confrontations. And like Trump, he’d say this out loud.
When I was teaching at the university level back in the early 2000’s, I was and still am a staunch conservative and strong advocate for capitalism and free markets. Even then, I ate lunch alone a lot because the “in thing” was to be liberal. It was not nearly as bad when I started teaching in the early 1970’s. It seems that “follow the money” is more true today as research dollars that support what the gov’t wants to hear wins the grants. The solution is to cut off the money, but how does one do that?
The Golden Rule : He who has the gold, makes the rules.
Academics, like actors (with whom they have a few things in common), are utterly for sale. And it doesn’t cost very much to buy them either.
Ping
Some facts ——
Colleges and universities in the United States are still a popular study destination for Chinese students, with over 317 thousand choosing to take courses there in the 2020/21 academic year. Source: statista.com
Country// Temporary visa holders (number) //Stay rate
China 48,503// 87.2%
India 22,761// 88.5%
South Korea 15,600// 65.1%
Taiwan 7,442// 62.9%
I guess Russia didn’t pay enough to Academia, DC think tanks and politicians
Extrapolate to everything else, and don’t pretend this started yesterday.
In Renaissance times people sought rich patrons and created what those patrons wanted. Now, the same.
Nothing’s changed. However, the old patrons wanted Beauty, Truth, and Goodness and we have the Sistine Chapel; now they want Grotesque, Doublethink, and Evil and we have gross arms holding a faux-penis. The system is the same; the patrons are corrupt.
We are literally giving away our most treasured technologies for the price of a graduate student.
POS Pompeo , while laughing : “ I was the CIA Director . We lied , we cheated and we stole . We had entire training courses . It reminds you of the glory of the American experiment .” LOUD applause !!!Wonder why the USA is hated in so many countries around the world ?
Pompeo was on Gutfeld a couple of nights ago. Guteld asked directly about the alien threat. Pompeo’s response was interesting. He said “We’ve got bigger problems.”
The way to regain control of the Chinese is to throw the students, post-docs, etc., out. Stop granting student visas except to Christians and maybe Falun Gong persecuted people.
While you are at it, Saudis, hostile Arab nations' students, other anti-American jerks, whomever... don't let them come here for an education.
Would stop a lot of the infiltration, intellectual property theft, espionage, immediately.
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