H1B: Let India be
By making the changes in the H1B visa, Trump has just done a huge favour to India. It doesn't seem that way right now, and there will be a doom-and-gloom in the Indian IT services sector. Its knock-on effect would be felt in many other sectors, including in Higher Education, which, after working as a conveyor belt for IT services jobs, must find a new purpose altogether. However, these changes are bad for Indian companies, but not necessarily for the country. This is one thing we should learn from China. The Trump-Biden restrictions on selling advanced chips to China created the Chinese 'tech stack'. It was not just the restriction on chips: The Chinese students were also barred from advance science and technology research programmes at the top universities. This hurt a lot of people and some companies (remember Huawei?), but China has turned the table in a few years. In fact, a Chinese friend told me that the Chinese policy makers now think that the US restrictions ...