Inviting people to your country for an education and making that appealing has for hundreds of years been one of the most effective long-term "soft power" moves a country can do. It naturalises other people to your culture, spreads your ways of thinking, and reinforces relevance in the global consciousness.
Logically, these people should be happy to allow foreign students to be educated in their country and see how 'great' it is.
But one can't assume any capacity for logical thought.