Opinion by Catherine Rampell: The United States is a nation of immigrants, and China is increasingly looking like a nation of emigrants. There’s an obviously play to be made here, if only we can get out of our own way.
Beijing’s economic and scientific ambitions might appear, it will struggle to achieve them if the country’s top talent is always eyeing the exits.Immigrants have long been the lifeblood of the U.S. economy and innovation. For more than a century, we have benefited from waves of people
leaving difficult conditions in their home countries. In fact, the U.S. government has often worked hard to poach the top talent of our geopolitical adversaries. During the mid-20th century, for instance, we took in scientists from Germany (both those who
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