China’s Opportunity in a Time of Need
The higher education establishment will use the coronavirus emergency to double down on their dependence on China. This is precisely the wrong response.
Of course, everybody in the establishment takes the coronavirus emergency as a reason to push for what they already wanted. Higher education’s spokesmen want colleges and universities to keep on doing what they’ve already done—and to have the federal government pick up the tab. But neither the federal government nor the states have pockets deep up enough to answer every call for help—and with a depression suddenly looming, a great many calls for help are rising up. The universities will have to look elsewhere for money.
They already get a great deal of money from China.
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