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Do you think China Leadership would be happy if 2/3rds of High Tech Chinese firms were lead by non Chinese?

(edit: I know the 2/3rd isn't accurate. The point which was clearly not well presented is there is an actual debate to be had on what the optimal benefit is for foreigner vs natives when it comes to immigration. No one cares if foreigners make up some % of tech firms. Might care if the % got too high. What is to high is debatable. This goes for any country)

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Do you think China's leadership is one we want emulated in the US?

If leaders of any country are for some reason not happy that many of their nation's tech companies are founded by immigrants, they should probably be unhappy with themselves for not doing more to allow nationals to acquire the necessary skills and education to succeed.

Keeping out foreign talent doesn't make your own people any smarter.

except that everyone except native americans are immigrants?

But this is not true, is it?

No, it's a racist lie, told in order to agitate a low-information base of vaguely ethno-nationalist voters.

Yeah but in this case it seems a number so out of reality that from my point of view it is funny (but I can't laugh about it, here in Brazil people think that the ex-president Lula is the hidden owner of the biggest meat company of the world).

It's out of reality from your point of view. What makes it starkly un-funny is the fact that for the true audience for that statement, it's not out of reality at all.

That comment was so far off base it was probably intentionally designed to be wrong, but other statistical anomalies aren't lies. Your typically tedious rebuttal won't work for any of those.

Who cares what the percentage is? As long as they're decent, law-abiding, tax-paying entrepreneurs, what is the problem?

race. race is the problem. Where've you been?

I'm asking why race is such a problem... Did you misunderstand or are you saying race is a problem for you?

why? Cuz they're racist. Did you expect a logical reason?

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