Helen Gao, Chinese, Studying in America, and Struggling. Paris: International New York Times, Dec 13, 2017 (op-ed).
My comment: I was admitted to Microbiology and Immunology department of University of Illinois at Illinois and went there in 1984. Within weeks, half of 16 first-year graduate students dropped out; they saw no future. Two Taiwanese and three South Koreans, among those kept going, excelled academically (except one Korean man, who cheated in the (unsupervised) qualifying exam at the end of the first year and passed. American classmates were the one that should have been frustrated, but they shrugged: "When you [a PhD or a master's] look for jobs, no employer will read your grades," Which turned out to be true. A year fter my arrival, there were two Chinese students (from PRC), but I did not ask any question, though one struggled (for what, I did not know; he graduated from a medical school in China and vowed to never return, but did not explain).