Joseph Nye has an op-ed in the Strib pointing out the lunacy of making Chinese students wait for visas after Saudi students attacked America.
It's a small, somewhat-removed example, but back in the 1950s and 1960s during the Malayan emergency, New Zealand took in a lot of Malay students. Malayan investment in New Zealand during the 1980s and 1990s was directly attributable to the education those students had 20-30 years earlier. Not only did the program succeed in making these students non-Communist, they became quite the western-oriented capitalists and liberals.
Where better for people to learn about capitalism and democracy than in countries that practice it.
Posted by robe0419 at November 30, 2004 11:55 AM