Re: China should encourage academic exchanges?
I first came across this a few years ago when a (ex) Chinese colleague got married. To his in-laws he's the 'poor relation' because while salaries in China are similar to California both taxes and the cost of living are a lot lower.
That was a few years ago when housing was still somewhat affordable here. It was the ambition of a typical Chinese middle class household to own property here, not to live in but as a sort of hedge against unfavorable exchange rate changes. Then we got Trump, wholesale open xenophobia and the meteoric push in housing prices....and the rest, as they say, is history.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
