For sure, and there was an interesting interview with Emmanuel Todd about this recently, this bit from the interview is pretty interesting in particular:
Despite the US being twice as populated as Russia, Todd said, only 7% of American students focus on engineering, compared to 25% in Russia. “The US fills the gap with foreign students, but they’re mainly Indians and even more Chinese,” he went on, “It is a dilemma of the American economy: it can only face competition from China by importing skilled Chinese labour.”
For sure, and there was an interesting interview with Emmanuel Todd about this recently, this bit from the interview is pretty interesting in particular:
https://unherd.com/thepost/emmanuel-todd-world-war-iii-has-already-begun/