It is pure capitalist bargaining, you took the deal without calming your heads first, and and you are just having buyer’s regret.
Good point. If these companies don't like it, go elsewhere or quit crying.
In effect, that's what we're doing. If we raise the tariffs high enough, other players will enter the market. The tariffs don't help the US as much as they create a more profitable environment for second tier players. If products from China are priced higher, maybe similar products from Viet Nam become more attractive for buyer and manufacturer.
It's true that a high percentage of graduate students are here on a student visa. Here's the problem I have with that: Why should we spend taxpayer money, my money, to give foreign students access to PUBLIC universities in preference to our own citizens. I paid for that university (not literally) and I expect my offspring to get preferential treatment. That doesn't happen because my offspring pay a lower rate and the universities want more money. In my view, we shouldn't admit any foreign students until all capable citizens have been accommodated. As to PRIVATE institutions, well, they can do whatever they want, as long as they don't take federal money to do it.
I'm thinking here about the University of California system. UC Berkeley, UCLA, or any of the other Cal State or UC campuses. The taxpayers own those universities and their offspring should get preference. Stanford and Cal-Tech can do what they want but they do receive a lot of federal funding so maybe there ought to be limits there as well.
So why is it that the US is a target for students? It's clear from this thread that we are woefully inadequate and yet students keep coming. Why don't they go to their own universities where their studies will be much more advanced? I would think universities in the UK would be more attractive. In a choice between UCLA and Oxford, I would pick Oxford every time.
Trump has tightened up on student visas and particularly the problem of overstaying the visa. Undergraduate degree holders don't bring much to the dance but post-graduate students need a path to remain in the country. There are at least 3 such paths but two of them are pretty well known: The H1B Visa and the ever popular Green Card. Heck, I had a Green Card when I worked in Singapore. Stapled to the back of my passport! Still have it...
There has been some tightening on H1B visas because the companies employing such workers were substantially underpaying them and dragging down wages for the natives. There have been some prosecutions but not nearly enough. But you can see why the natives don't want the H1Bs dragging wages down.
I don't know much about the Green Card process but it would seem to me that if the process is begun early enough, there should be a seamless transition. Much of it depends on the employer doing their part and this is difficult considering that the student is probably not allowed to work on a Student Visa. It's complicated...
Were it me, I would be heading to every university in the world and slurping up all the STEM post-grads I could find.
We are starting to talk about 'points based' immigration. We assign a certain score for various attributes (education, age, skills, etc) and if a candidate passes the threshold, they are admitted. Australia has done this for a very long time. I looked at their score sheet one time back around '86. Even with my MS degree, I couldn't make the cut. So far, it's just talk. And it's going nowhere as long as we have a flood of illegal immigrants coming over our southern border.
As to taking the deal: Well, now we want to renegotiate the deal. Things have changed and we don't like the old deal. We want to make some changes. Both sides need to give and take and there is no motivation on the part of the Chinese to give anything. Why should they? They can simply wait out the next 6 years and see what happens next. The long game works for China. The US messed up when they granted Most Favored Nation status back in the '90s. We wouldn't be in this mess had we not done that. Clinton...
Apparently we were able to renegotiate NAFTA to Trump's satisfaction. A new deal has been signed by the parties but not approved by Congress. It's dead in the water as a treaty until it is approved and that's not likely given the current state of Congress.