They are not poaching a 'talented kid' but accomplished kids ,kids that have a bunch of titles to their name already.
If the Unis had the capacity to make champions they wouldn't bother with poaching foreigners would they?
If their birth country was so great, the can stay there. Instead the come to the US to live and train. Much like a Toyota plant in the US making cars and counting towards the US GDP...
Team USA dominated the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, winning both the overall medal count and gold medal tally, but Chinese state media has altered those figures in a way to assert itself as the gold medal leader.
www.foxnews.com
Seems that the ChiComs took my Gross Domestic Medal count idea to the next level. They're just adding the medal count of other teams to theirs. Kind of like if the USA said, "See all of those Canadians, they're really US athletes (and Canada really doesn't exist) and their medals count towards our totals. Boom, suck it bitches..."