I’m starting to wonder why the US ever thought it could it hold an edge in all these fields without ever investing real money into education.
China graduate 5 million STEM students a year and actually invest money into research and pushing technology instead of just finding new ways to extract rent. They were always going to be able to catch up and then move ahead.
China graduate 5 million STEM students a year and actually invest money into research and pushing technology instead of just finding new ways to extract rent.
A lot of Western nations are actually reducing their funding to sciences.
Shooting themselves in the foot and then blaming China for it.
A lot of Western nations are actually reducing their funding to sciences.
The first axe will always be to the humanities though. The program opportunities between engineering students and liberal arts students at my uni is night and day. Partly why I’m doing a double major, there’s just not a sustainable future in the humanities.
They expected to coast on their dollar power and cultural capital to attract scientists trained elsewhere forever I guess
I think it’s mostly just good old racism. They really thought that Chinese were simply intellectually inferior to them and could never develop comparable tech on their own.
They still do this with the assertion that China steals everything from western tech.
