>Well the vast majority of these kids would prefer to stay in the US.
I'm afraid you're making assumptions here.
America is not where opportunity is these days, especially in the hardware manufacturing sector.
I'm afraid you're making assumptions here.
America is not where opportunity is these days, especially in the hardware manufacturing sector.
Yes, but the living standards in the United States are far higher. Sure you may never become a billionaire here like you can in China, but you can breathe the air and the traffic isn't that bad. The schools are better, the houses are bigger. China may get there, but I know where I'd rather be over the next 20-30 years. And they can always move back.
Yeah, I think US living standards are higher for now. But I can totally see China seeing parity in less than 20 years. For one thing, they have made large strides in infrastructure investment, and for another thing, they've been realizing and acting on their need to clean up their environmental act over the last few years.
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/10/05/climate/trump...
You heard of the (infamous) Gaokao? It's gruelling, and necessitates nothing but continuous study day in and day out to get into a decent Chinese university.
If they could, a lot of Chinese would prefer to study in the US (or any other western country for that matter).
At the undergrad and graduate level, perhaps, and as another poster commented, probably not for very long.
But for the school years before undergrad, I'm sorry to say, America is in a very bad way.
I don't know how it compares to China, but American public primary and secondary school is definitely not where I'd have my children receive an education