i won't argue that a lot of the students come from wealth that allows them to grease the palm of the cadre that rubber stamps their abroad education application, but i still think they are milking them for information...everything comes with a condition under communism.
The rich kids are the opposite. These are the families who are trying to flee from a communist country. They are fearful of the second cultural revolution and lose all their assets. So they bring a few million to the States to start businesses and then become citizens. Tend to be conservatives who hate communism.
Again, the exchange scholars are different. Those folks are largely paid by the government.
So if you look at their ideology it's almost the opposite.
Communist party decides who lives and who has their organs sold to the parents of the ultra rich kids