China demands as a condition of access to its markets that technology and high-level jobs be transferred to its shores. Let's sell it all for a quick buck for Wall Street. If we have to put jobs and technology in other countries, then we go ahead and do it. And, if you are intrigued by the highly publicized trips of Cabinet secretaries to India, China and Pakistan and reports of billions of dollars of alleged business for the U.S., let me tell you how it really works. The U.S. companies get contracts to build the electric plants on the promise by the U.S. government that U.S. companies will then invest billions in facilities in India, China, Pakistan or wherever.
Some countries know how to leverage access to their markets.
Another practice that affects our future is the transfer of our biotechnology expertise. It's because faculty members will do anything for development and research dollars to run their labs. I was told recently by a researcher in a biogenetics lab at the National Institutes of Health that he was the only non-Japanese researcher in his lab. The operative laboratory language is Japanese. I find it very interesting that one must be a U.S. citizen to even apply for work in the U.S. post office, but there is no such requirement to obtain access to our most prized research.