I have experienced both academic blind ignorance and pushback repercussions of this as a student.

In my undergrad, during our second year (13 years ago now), my cohort doubled in size with Chinese students. A mixture of those who had good and poor written and spoken English skills, and good and very poor academic and practical capabilities. Neither our lecture halls or studio space could accommodate a doubling in the size of the cohort; each home student was forcefully "buddied up," and told they were to share a drawing desk with a Chinese student for the entirety of year two and three. Our first design project in year two was assigned to you and your new buddy. In year one, and for previous cohorts, each student was assigned their own drawing desk.

This was a very competitive course to gain entry to, in a Russel group university where, when I entered, the course was rated third in the UK. I worked hard to gain my top grade A levels and university place and I paid the university only for them to expect me to chaperone, share a desk, and complete a project with an international student who could not properly communicate with me. If I remember correctly, the lowest ability of the new Chinese students passed the second year while initial/home student that were more able did not. Access to tutors drop massively. This experience absolutely destroyed my academic experience (still had a great social experience which the university played little part in) and I decided not to pursue a career in the subject after finishing, despite being pretty able, I was just done with the whole thing.

Jump to a me changing of subject/career for my post grad studies where a large number of my cohort were also Chinese. My course leader seemingly cared a lot about academic ability and rigour. The Chinese students who could not communicate in spoken or written English to a good enough standard consistently failed. I feel for those young international adults that have had parents and states pay their way and are used to getting what they want/feel entitled to, it must be utter destruction to fail, but that experience helped me repair some old wounds from my undergrad.

I've just finished my third post grad studies, a professionally accredited course leading to professional registration. It was the highest academic standard that I've ever been subject to (quite the shock at first). No international students on the course.

I am not against Chinese or international people or students by any means, but I do stand for equality. Where there is money, there is power. Power always wins and it's entrenched in our academic institutions. It destroyed my undergrad experience, and probably has had similar consequences to thoughts of home students since. That course - as far as I am aware, been a while since I checked - has slipped massively in national rankings since.

I didn't expect to write that much but it came out, just sharing my experience.