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>“The Chinese are just as good, and maybe better, in key areas of research and innovation as the West,” Schmidt explained. “They’re putting more money into it. They are putting it in a different way, it is state-directed in a way that is different from the West. We need to get our act together to compete.”
By not restricting Chinese students according to Eric Schmidt.
https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2020/06/chinese-students-are-key-us-national-security-eric-schmidt-says/166212/
Schmidt, who chairs the Defense Innovation Board and the National Security Council for Artificial Intelligence, said that “this current trend to restrict Chinese student access to universities is against our own self-interest.”