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Boiling Points, Rubber Stamps And Expelled Students
Global equities are still biased to rise, but tension between the world's two superpowers and an exe
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“Only around 3,000 will be affected, less than 10% of the more than 350,000 Chinese students studying in the US.”
While 0.86% is indeed “less than 10%”, I suspect that either you intended to say “30,000 will be affected” or “less than 1%”. Of course, who cares about details or math?
Perhaps the adverse effects of decreased foreign student enrollment on university finances and the (inflation adjusted) reduction in state support over the last few decades might be worth discussion. Just as the US has too many malls, perhaps the US also has too many state universities? (Private colleges and universities are closing every year and so this issue is resolving itself.) Or perhaps the states need to increase funding for public higher education?
Yes, obviously that was meant to be “less than 1%”