Trump has been defunding university research. Does China benefit from it?

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Trump has been defunding university research. Does China benefit from it?

WASHINGTON – In 1957, a U.S. senator from Texas named Lyndon B. Johnson anxiously watched from his ranch as the Soviet Union became the first country to launch a satellite into orbit around the Earth.The angst from those days and the Eisenhower administration's early setback in the space race helped push Johnson to sign the Higher Education Act of 1965 after he became president. The landmark law flooded the higher education system with federal money (and, eventually, lots of student loan debt) with the goal of training generations of new engineers. Seven decades later, some politicians and college leaders are becoming ..