• darkcalling [comrade/them, she/her]@hexbear.net
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    25 days ago

    ​That concern is amplified because of Beijing’s military-civil fusion strategy, whereby civilian scientific resources and research are shared with the military.

    Unlike the US where there is a hard wall between civilian science and the military right, right, right, right?! hasan-stfu

    “China has weaponized against us our own openness and our own efforts for innovation,” said Glenn Gerstell, a nonresident senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and former general counsel of the U.S. National Security Agency from 2015 to 2020. “They’ve flipped that and turned it around against us, and they’re ​taking advantage of it.”

    LMAO as if the US hasn’t spent a century stealing anything it could from anyone it could rip off. Boo hoo we need more secrecy and less scrutiny of our mad science efforts. Otherwise those Asiatic hordes could never come up with this on their own. Only the divine anglo-brain-pan could possibly bring about innovation.

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      24 days ago

      That magnanimous openness, where all the research is done by mininally compensated international students under constant threat of deportation.

      Shocking that they’d go home to work in a lavishly funded lab where that’s not the case.

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        The USA just can’t help but look a gift horse in the mouth. International grad students are viewed with such suspicion… and yet, are one of the fundamental innovators powering the engine of the US economy. Lieber’s grad students are a perfect example: a lot of people think he was training an ominous horde of Asians who are presumably doing nefarious things such as advancing medical science at USA universities.