>>2566084The West actually depends a lot on harvesting the intellectuals of the rest of the world - just look at how much of the American IT sector, doctors, top researchers in various fields, etc. are first-gen or second-gen migrants, and imagine America without any of them. Are the locals, 20% of whom are illiterate, 54% of which are below a 6th grade reading level, going to fill those spots held by the global cream of the crop?
TLDR the tech race between China and America becomes hydrogen bomb vs coughing baby