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Australia is full of CCPs, especially corrupted officials, Canada and Australia are popular destinations because it is first world country with immigration policy. (especially their kids don't study well and are spoiled, it is not a problem for Australia apparently)

Actually most students go to US are amongst the best students from China, either top students or really hardworking students, and most of them will be excellent engineers and scientists, if US is pushing them away, it is probably good for China.

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Foreign students pay 2-3x as much as Australians do to study in Australia. Allowing rich Chinese children to study abroad contributes a lot to Australia's economy and those high fees subsidise everyone else which allows keeping local tuition low, which is why Australia is so open to them.

This is the same argument pushed by US and UK universities with huge numbers of foreign students, but how is that reflected in the tuition rates for local students? All that does is pay for an even more over bloated yet ever expanding university system.

> those high fees subsidise everyone else

Rather, they also elevate tuition costs for everyone and many schools are very lenient on cheating by people paying these high fees.

not only students, Australia welcomes every dollar. I don't blame them. It is a beautiful country, and I would go there and live in a mansion if I have enough money. The side effect is the property price will increase, but property owners can make a lot money.

> either top students or really hardworking students, and most of them will be excellent engineers and scientists

Only true for PhD students. Most are just from rich/CCP's families.

Do you think Xi Jinpings daughter studied in the US due to merit or corruption?

How would anyone here know that? She's not even unde her real name but under a pseudonim.

Hardly anonymous if it's widely known.

What is widely known? What's her name? Where does she study?

Xi Mingze. Harvard. You don't know just because you don't really care about it. The info is on Wikipedia.

Neither, it's due to real politik.

It's better to have world 'leaders' talking than not, so you bite the bullet and send them to Harvard.

I don't think his daughter would have bad scores, in general, those kids would actually do well in school, not spoiled. but I also don't think many (not only Xi's daughter) political offsprings are qualified for the best universities if they were evaluated the same way as commons.

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