Despite all this - immigration to the US is still high. https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/08/20/key-findings-about-u-s-immigrants/ We don't see immigrants (legal / illegal) spending countless hours or insane amounts of money paying agents to land up on the shores of Shanghai for a better life!! China does seem to be doing all the right things as far as investing in their own people and in technologies of the future for a better world because of its speed of decision making & execution. Just bear in mind, it was with this same speed that tanks rolled into Tiananmen square in 1989.