What is the point of asking USA education system to undergo significant reforms to encourage competition and recognize excellence, when the USA Government is afraid to face open competition and using underhand tactics to stifle those that outperform the USA in many fields. As I always believe, no competition will stifle innovation, and no innovation means stagnation.
This is not just about stifling Chinese innovation. They USA already did that against Toshiba of Japan and Alstrom from France long ago and using the same formula to keep countries down. More recently such tactics were used against Huawei, then followed by Tik Tok and now going into action against Rednote and DeepSeek. Is this the kind of mentality that will change with a change in its education system? Obviously not. This is only empty rhetoric and not actually going to walk the talk. This is not how things move in the USA, unlike in China.
Had China not been coming out with all the cutting-edge domination in EVs, high-speed rails, batteries, infrastructure construction, space exploration, telecommunication, mobile phones, shipbuilding and now aviation, the USA would still be thinking that it has the edge and can keep its head in the clouds. The sudden realization of what China is capable of doing gives them a wake-up call to take a closer look at the Chinese education system. And they found out the real reason why China had been progressing beyond what they could not expect.
It is perhaps not too early to say that the USA is just trying to close the stable doors after the horses have bolted. It is too little too late to realize it is now doing the catching up. Changing the country's education system takes years to bear fruit and time is not on the USA's side. Just like trying to secure raw materials and rare earth that the early China bird already had the worm in its mouth.
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We have already seen the kind of education system in the USA producing people who do even know that cotton does not come from sheep. And even producing Cotton-mouth senators, or snakes, that do not even know that Singapore is not a part of China.
Oh, not to forget all the muddle-headed highly educated Congressmen and women making all the decisions for the brain-dead USA citizens to follow. That, by the way is what the USA's education system is all about and producing. How does that measure up to the gloating about their top rankings in the World University survey is a puzzle. And it costs those wishing for a university education in the USA to pay an arm and a leg to achieve.
Everything in the USA is at marked up prices of enormous proportions, not just in education. In the military it has been reported that the USA military does not wince about spending US$9,000 for a bag of bushings or metal sleeves, US$1,200 for a coffee cup or US$600 for a toilet seat. And Trump is trying to coax Russia and China to talk about cutting military spending. Trump ought to look seriously at the USA military budget first before trying to talk to Russia and China about cutting spending. Russia and China are not overspending on the military to need any cutback, and they are doing just fine, but not the USA. Russia and China must not fall into the ploy of Trump and decimate their own military upgrading program. There is a report that China is building two new nuclear submarines, coming on fast and furious on top of the Fujian.
Trump is not as peaceful in his behavior as most seem to believe. His stance of needing to use military force, if necessary, runs counter to his profess peace talk. But the USA needs peace in Ukraine and Middle East to allow it to re-arm itself instead of producing weapons non-stop to fuel the Ukraine and Middle East wars. Trump needs to conserve resources to fund his tax cuts for the rich from all sources.
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