In an article in the January/February issue of Foreign Affairs, Jude Blanchette and Ryan Hass wrote:
Even with its many shortcomings and vulnerabilities, the United States continues to command a strategic depth that China fundamentally lacks: a unique combination of economic vitality, global military superiority, remarkable human capital, and a political system designed to promote the correction of errors. The resilient and adaptable U.S. economy has the words’s deepest and most liquid capital markets and unparalleled influence over the global financial system. The United States continues to attract global talent including many Chinese nationals now fleeing their country’s autocratic political environment.
Article in today’s Business section of the New York Times by Patricia Cohen:
As President Trump cuts billions of federal dollars from science institutes and universities, restricts what can be studied and pushes out immigrants, rival nations are hoping to pick up talent that has been cast aside or become disenchanted.
The article goes on to discuss cutbacks at American universities in research activities and details efforts in France, Spain, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Britain, Canada, Portugal, Austria, and Australia to pick up the scientists and researchers who are deserting the U.S. because of the cutbacks and anti-intellectual climate.
This is the definition of a self-inflicted wound.
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