With the journalistic self-immolation of the\nNew York Times, the Wall Street Journal has emerged as the last bastion of\nFourth Estate integrity among print dailies. While most editorial pages have\nbecome apologists or even outright cheerleaders for the \u201cwoke\u201d mob, the Journal\neditorial page has resisted dogmatic conformity. The paper has even come a long\nway since it advocated in 1984 (fittingly enough) a five-word constitutional\namendment, \u201cThere shall be open borders.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But the \u201cWall Street\u201d in the Wall Street Journal\u2019s name is still there for a reason, and it was fully on display in the paper\u2019s lead June 24 editorial<\/a>, \u201cTrump\u2019s Immigration Gift to China.\u201d The \u201cgift to China,\u201d in the opinion of the Journal\u2019s editorial board, was the June 22 Proclamation<\/a> that pauses admission of many categories of immigrants and guest workers in response to the unemployment crisis triggered by the coronavirus pandemic (oh, which by the way, originated in China).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Nevermind the editorial\u2019s rote recitation of long discredited assertions<\/a> of a shortage of skilled American workers, particularly in the STEM fields, or that it ignores the widespread abuse<\/a> of the H-1B guest worker program. What is truly bizarre about the editorial is the absurd claim that the president\u2019s order \u201cwill hamstring U.S. innovation, aiding China\u2019s effort to dominate artificial intelligence, semiconductors and biotech. The winners,\u201d the editorial continues, \u201cwill be China\u2019s national champions including Huawei, Baidu, and Tencent.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Perhaps the folks on the editorial page don\u2019t spend a whole lot of time reading the news. What has become pretty clear is that China\u2019s \u201cnational champions\u201d of the tech field are the undisputed international champions when it comes to stealing technologies developed in other nations<\/a> and marketing it as their own. And one of their preferred means of staying on the cutting edge of intellectual property theft is sending \u201cstudents\u201d and other temporary workers to countries like the United States where innovation does take place. While we may run a huge goods and services trade deficit with China, we also have the unfortunate distinction of running an even greater surplus when it comes to exporting (however unwittingly) intellectual property and trade secrets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Far from being a gift to China, the pause in\nguest worker admissions will actually hamstring Chinese industry\u2019s preferred\nmeans of acquiring new technologies: stealing it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" With the journalistic self-immolation of the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal has emerged as the last bastion of Fourth Estate integrity among print dailies. While most editorial pages have become apologists or even outright cheerleaders for the \u201cwoke\u201d mob, the Journal editorial page has resisted dogmatic conformity. The paper has even come a<\/p>\n