Whether or not China decides to call its international students home in response to the global coronavirus pandemic, it faces strong incentives to scale back its outbound student flows, and the coronavirus provides the perfect cover for a change of course.
Australian universities are so dependent on money from Chinese students that they’re helping them circumvent travel bans and quarantines. The United States shows a better way.
Money isn’t everything. Morals matter more.
Young adults are bound to take undue risks. It’s our responsibility not to let them. Our Chinese students belong at home with their loved ones, not abroad and in peril.
The GDPR operates as a dead-weight drag on the entire European internet.
If China’s economy was growing at all at the beginning of 2020, it isn’t anymore.
The financial urge to allow Chinese students to begin the new university year must not trump public health concerns.
Would you trust a car that thought deeply about issues of life and death? Or would you rather your car just got on with the driving, and left the big moral questions to the philosophers?
