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Cotton always was a racist GOP jerk!
"If Chinese students want to come here and study Shakespeare & the Federalist Papers, that's what they need to learn from America. They don't need to learn quantum computing" -- Sen. Tom Cotton proposes restricting Chinese students from studying science & tech at US universities
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roamer65
(36,745 posts)Last edited Sun Apr 26, 2020, 01:33 PM - Edit history (1)
If so, cotton needs to STFU.
Under The Radar
(3,401 posts)...likely trying to turn attention away from Trumps ignorance once again.
dalton99a
(81,432 posts)RKP5637
(67,102 posts)NoMoreRepugs
(9,404 posts)future run for President.
samsingh
(17,594 posts)Docreed2003
(16,858 posts)No offense to American Shakespearean scholars. Cotton is a freaking bigoted ass.
Caliman73
(11,728 posts)Does idiot Cotton think that Shakespeare was American?
Rule number 1 when being an arrogant bigot: Don't say something that is fucking stupid, like America is the place to come to study Shakespeare.
Celerity
(43,282 posts)Botany
(70,483 posts)Docreed2003
(16,858 posts)Botany
(70,483 posts)BTW did he really say study quantum computing? I might be wrong but I thought
all analytical computing is quantum based. And BTW China already leads the world
in A.I..
dalton99a
(81,432 posts)to require expulsion of Chinese from university programs
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,988 posts)"Not invented here" can be the death of many companies and some countries.
theaocp
(4,235 posts)LakeArenal
(28,813 posts)Republicans dont want US students to study science either.
tulipsandroses
(5,122 posts)right wing and religious ideologies.
Just like they have vilified immigrant farmworkers and other food industries, to placate their rabid base, without telling them the truth that immigrants help to hold up our food industry.
You won't hear it from them that immigrants are a big contribution to our science and tech industry.
This rabid racism we have seen over the last several years will push those people to take their talents elsewhere and help those countries succeed. While we cling to guns, the Bible and push stupid conspiracy theories.
Sneederbunk
(14,289 posts)Delphinus
(11,830 posts)be allowed - horrid idea. Eff him - it's all about saving the dotard's face.
JHB
(37,158 posts)Tom, they don't have to come here. They have their own universities, you know. They already have quantum computing research going on.
And isn't it better if they come here rather than we end up having to go there?
dalton99a
(81,432 posts)Stemming the flow of international students could cost US colleges $41 billion
Published Sun, Mar 15 2020 10:16 AM EDT
Baitball Blogger
(46,698 posts)would bring the Shakespearean fool characters up to a new level.
gademocrat7
(10,653 posts)Needs to slither back to the woods of Arkansas.
dalton99a
(81,432 posts)Cotton is the biggest hypocrite in Congress on every subject
genxlib
(5,524 posts)Is that we will be the ones to develop the vaccine.
It is just as likely that it gets developed elsewhere. Including, potentially in China where they have the scientific capability and a two month head start.
I, for one, would rather not be the selfish asshole on the outside looking in when it gets developed elsewhere.
clutterbox1830
(395 posts)We are going to hear non-stop China bashing and xenophobia until election day.
The Magistrate
(95,244 posts)If recollection serves, even while we were allied with China in the war against Japan, no Chinese could be naturalized as a citizen of the United States.
"Defeat of a dangerous enemy is something to be for."
dalton99a
(81,432 posts)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Exclusion_Act
Norbert
(6,039 posts)dalton99a
(81,432 posts)DFW
(54,330 posts)Similar to the contributions made to American medicine by Louis Pasteur.........
dalton99a
(81,432 posts)DFW
(54,330 posts)To an old neo-Nazi like Cotton, they are allowed, sort of like Göbbels and Mengele.
Chipper Chat
(9,676 posts)Unless you have an opinion about Looney Ghoulmert.
crickets
(25,960 posts)MelissaB
(16,420 posts)Chinese students have been stealing our info (science, technology, etc) and sending it back to China. I dislike Cotton immensely, but we need to address this national security issue.
I have 2 children and a husband in STEM fields. I went through some of my text messages and pulled up a few articles I have sent her over the last few months. Here they are.
Universities are forging ties with the FBI as US cracks down on foreign influence
Public institutes are responding to allegations of interference in research by foreign governments, especially China.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00646-9
Researcher at University Arrested for Wire Fraud and Making False Statements About Affiliation with a Chinese University
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/researcher-university-arrested-wire-fraud-and-making-false-statements-about-affiliation
US says suspect in Apple case had classified Patriot missile file from Raytheon
https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2019/12/08/says-suspect-apple-case-had-classified-patriot-missile-file-from-raytheon/RbRvWMzvo0Vq30nu5a9PfL/story.html
Raytheon engineer arrested for taking US missile defense secrets to China
https://qz.com/1795127/raytheon-engineer-arrested-for-taking-us-missile-defense-secrets-to-china/
"Dr. Charles Lieber, 60, Chair of the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University, was arrested this morning and charged"
https://www.justice.gov/usao-ma/pr/harvard-university-professor-and-two-chinese-nationals-charged-three-separate-china
"Unbeknownst to Harvard University, beginning in 2011, Lieber became a Strategic Scientist at
Wuhan University of Technology (WUT) in China"
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Today's announcement by federal law enforcement is the culmination of cases where 1) A Harvard professor received thousands for China 2) A member of the PLA was at BU conducting US Military Research 3) A third arrested at Logan for smuggling vials of medical research.
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The arrested Harvard prof is tip of the iceberg. When the Texas A&M system investigated how much Chinese money its faculty was getting, officials were astoundedover 100 were involved in Chinese talent recruitment plans. Only 5 disclosed.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/chinas-funding-of-u-s-researchers-raises-red-flags-11580428915
Judge mulls fate of US researcher who denies spying for China
https://www.foxbusiness.com/money/judge-mulls-fate-of-us-researcher-who-denies-spying-for-china
Amid rising spy concerns, 2 more Chinese students held after shooting photos at base
Key West visitors always flock to the towns favorite tourist spots Mallory Square, Duval Street, Ernest Hemingways home, and the Southernmost Point Buoy to snap photos and record memories.
But apparently, not students visiting from China. For some reason, they seem to like taking pictures of military facilities in Key West.
The latest a pair of Chinese nationals attending the University of Michigan were arrested over the weekend and appeared in federal court in Key West on Monday on a charge of entering a U.S. Naval property for the purpose of photographing defense installations.
Since the fall of 2018, a total of four Chinese nationals have been arrested on charges of shooting pictures of military facilities in Key West, drawing the sharp interest of U.S. counterintelligence investigators who have been probing suspected Beijing-led spying activities in South Florida, including visitors to President Donald Trumps private club, Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach.
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In a similar case, another Chinese student, Lyuyou Liao, was arrested the day after Christmas on a charge of entering the Truman Annex at the Naval Air Station for the purpose of photographing defense installations. In Liaos case, several witnesses told police they watched Liao trespass onto the military property and warned him not to go there, according to another criminal affidavit. He was later stopped by federal agents who found photos on his cellphone of military facilities.
Read more here: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/florida-keys/article239010873.html#storylink=cpy
killaphill
(212 posts)Cherry picked stories intended to breed paranoia.
MelissaB
(16,420 posts)Tom Cotton may be a racist asshole, but broken clock and all.
Edited to say: Cherry picked stories? Come on!
Midnight Writer
(21,738 posts)Kind of like Paul Ryan, he has inexplicably gained a reputation for being a smart policy wonk in the GOP.
In the land of the blind...
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,402 posts)He's not saying a lot about the US if the only reason(s) to come here is study Shakespeare (which isn't even American literature) or history of the American government that not even he nor Trump has a grasp on.