> Chinese/Indian/etc will even be as open to US students as the US has been to them

India has been opening campuses abroad like IIT Madras in Tanzania [0] and IIT Delhi in Abu Dhabi [1] to cater specifically to building that kind of relationship in Africa and MENA. The majority of seats allocated (66%) are for foreign nationals.

Top Indian programs like IIT Delhi have been very active giving fellowships and subsidises for students and researchers from ASEAN [2], the African Union [3], Pacific Island nations [4], and Afghanistan [5]

And Vietnam would do similar programs as well for poorer ASEAN nations and a number of African countries (notably Angola and Mozambique) as well as Cuba

Japan has been running a multi-decade long international student and R&D collaboration program that helped jumpstart South Korea and China's R&D capacity in the 1980s and 1990s, along with much of ASEAN's more recently (my SO is a product of that). Same with South Korea as well.

[0] - https://www.iitmz.ac.in/

[1] - https://abudhabi.iitd.ac.in/

[2] - https://asean.iitd.ac.in/

[3] - https://www.itecgoi.in/index

[4] - https://www.itecgoi.in/Sagaramrut

[5] - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-14/india-off...