But beneath this calm, there is probably going to be a soft war, a quiet competition for power and influence across the globe. America and China will be friends one day, rivals another, cooperate in one area, compete in another. Welcome to the 21st century.
This may be a backhanded compliment, but it is amazing that China is even competitive. They have to pull themselves out from a deep hole - dug by the huge impoverished population.
First of all, for China to even compete, they have to do what we have already done. They have to build a university system like the one we have. This is not going to be easy, but lucky for them, the vast right wing in the United States will help. The right wing, for the most part want to dismantle our university system. But, it will still be difficult for China to build a university system equal to ours even one that is crippled by our right wing.
Without a university system like ours, China can not produce anyone that can really think. They can work as hard as possible, but they need people that can articulate a future. I don't hear anything coming out of China that resembles free thinking. Where is China going? How can they get there?
What does John Woo, Ang Lee, Jackie Chan, I. M. Pei, Michelle Kwan, Jerry Yang, YoYo Mah, Steven Chu, Samual Ting, TD Lee, CN Yang, YT Lee, Major General John Fugh, and Amy Tang have in common?
They did it in American.
Whether it is architecture, law, literature, music, ice skating, or science - it is the American component that makes it possible.
Science is not really in any international language:
If X+Y is greater or equal to a Nobel Prize in Physics goto end
Else
Continue your research in an American University.
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