At this point I think US lost the technological edge, and I don’t really see any path for them to regain it. The reality of the situation is that China has a higher population and a better education system that’s freely available to all the citizens. Meanwhile, plenty of people teaching in China got their education at top Western universities. China outputs something like 8 to 1 STEM graduates compared to US now.
So, China doesn’t really need to attract external talent because they’re developing their own talent locally. At the same time western companies have brought all their know how to China where they do manufacturing and China is now able to do everything the West can do including their own chip manufacturing.
Furthermore, combination of xenophobia in the west and declining economic conditions mean that it’s highly unlikely that any top talent will be poached from China going forward.
I completely agree with you that US will cling to imperialism because that’s all they know, and unfortunately that will lead to an increasingly volatile situation going forward. Personally, at this point I’m convinced that the best thing for the world would be if US saw an internal collapse in the near future.
Yeah, I think the whole model is premised on the idea that everybody wants to live to US. However a lot of educated people are increasingly seeing US in a negative light. There is already some reverse brain drain starting to happen with people moving to EU and Canada. I only expect this process to accelerate going forward.
At this point I think US lost the technological edge, and I don’t really see any path for them to regain it. The reality of the situation is that China has a higher population and a better education system that’s freely available to all the citizens. Meanwhile, plenty of people teaching in China got their education at top Western universities. China outputs something like 8 to 1 STEM graduates compared to US now.
So, China doesn’t really need to attract external talent because they’re developing their own talent locally. At the same time western companies have brought all their know how to China where they do manufacturing and China is now able to do everything the West can do including their own chip manufacturing.
Furthermore, combination of xenophobia in the west and declining economic conditions mean that it’s highly unlikely that any top talent will be poached from China going forward.
I completely agree with you that US will cling to imperialism because that’s all they know, and unfortunately that will lead to an increasingly volatile situation going forward. Personally, at this point I’m convinced that the best thing for the world would be if US saw an internal collapse in the near future.
US also has a ridiculously high number of foreign postgrad students. Their education system is not sustainable. Sooner or later it will give in.
Yeah, I think the whole model is premised on the idea that everybody wants to live to US. However a lot of educated people are increasingly seeing US in a negative light. There is already some reverse brain drain starting to happen with people moving to EU and Canada. I only expect this process to accelerate going forward.