[bflesch]

Fully agree but it is still a risk for the US, because if the clever immigrants notice they can't get as rich as their American-born peers and on top of that US leadership publicly antagonizes their country of origin, those foreign-born engineers can quickly become foreign agents.

[ifwinterco]

Yes true, and the US is maybe big enough to adopt that approach.

It’s what China does (except for poaching people from Taiwan), but they have 1bn people so for them it makes sense