Chinese universities are racing higher in the global rankings. Our soft power problem.

The top Chinese universities, such as Tsinghua, Peking, Zhejiang, and Jiaotong, are soaring through the international rankings. They are attracting hundreds of thousands of international students from around the world, who attend at just one tenth the cost of comparable universities in the United States, Canada, Europe, and Australia.
As these students graduate Chinese programs and return to their home countries, and move up in their careers, the contacts and networks developed here, in China, will accrue enormous long-term soft power advantages to China.
Resources and links:
Wall Street Journal (2013) Chinese Students Struggle for Returns on Education in U.S.
www.wsj.com/articles/BL-CJB-1...
Christian Science Monitor, In Latin America China steps in, where the US has stepped out
www.csmonitor.com/World/Ameri...
Tuition and living costs for international students at top Chinese universities
www.mastersportal.com/article...
and www.china-admissions.com/chin...
Barrons, Chinese universities climb up leading global rankings
www.barrons.com/news/chinese-...
China rises and Harvard top in Times Higher Education’s latest World Reputation Rankings
www.timeshighereducation.com/...

[@horridohobbies]

The USA takes a purely capitalist, profit-centred view of education. China does not. China views education as a public good, not only for its own people but for the entire world.

[@trekpac2]

But as well, China is smart enough to know that all of these economies will be intricately linked to theirs.

[@L98fiero]

More than that, _EVERYTHING_ in the West is considered a profit center and as such, thinks in the profitability in quarters, they _don't care_ about long term profitability, just what they can show their *shareholders* how they did this quarter, let the long term look after itself!

[@monipenny408]

Chinese universities can never compete with those in the U$, not even close. For start, U$ universities have complete freedom. Freedom to do drugs, advanced trans syllabus, modern DEI policies unrivalled anywhere. Not only that U$ universities are leading on re-defining the meaning of gender, most universities in the east have 2 genders, but in the U$ it is limitless, LGBTn, where n=infinite number. China univ is no match for U$ univ.

[@willengel2458]

thanks to Deng XP who had the foresight to send students overseas to further their education. China was able to transitioned from low to mid, and then from mid-level to high tech is a result of that policy.

[@ohsweetmystery]

Wrong. Free market capitalism has been eliminated from the USA for almost 100 years now. The current decline in the United States is 100% due to the socialist/communist government interference in capitalism.

[@Rubicon365]

The strategic thinking of the Chinese never cease to amaze. They really think long term and are not afraid of taking a short term hit.

[@MetaView7]

Many people are waking up to the shortcomings of a 4-year election cycle, but we are not wise enough, or upset enough to change it.

[@adolft_official]

They are just following western imperialists minus their mistakes

[@linphilip6389]

​@@adolft_officialthey never set up colonies and build 400 military bases around the globe. stfu and talk some sense

[@fannyalbi9040]

@@adolft_officialchinese has been adapting foreign ideologies since ancient times. Said Buddhism, china brought the thinking to china minus the india caste system Then the marxism adapted it to chinese culture then called it socialism with chinese characters 😅

[@DJs021]

​@@MetaView7hahahaha... Remind me of ARGENTINA 😂 the recent clown show from Argentina is more entertaining than comedy show.

[@jazening3075]

Absolutely Fascinating! Keep going China! TEAM CHINA NOW AND FOREVER ALL THE WAY!👍🙂

[@brandonso]

An internship with Kevin is worth more than a Harvard business degree.

[@scott701230]

Bless China, a pillar and beacon of peace and harmony. May she grow in strength. 27 April 2024.

[@good2freelance1]

Chinese universities should be as good if not better than overseas Universities, because china has all the infrastructure, facilities, and equipment to study, plus hiring professors from all over the world.

[@thisiskevin1000]

Attracting the best thinkers from the rest of the world

[@misty671]

You forgot the biggest benefit: Chinese universities are not pushing a woke agenda.

[@sciagurrato1831]

More importantly, the allocation of central government research support is more objective and less influenced by the corrupt system in the US which favors certain commercial areas, institutions,and ideologies. This is exemplified above all by the NIH and CDC whose senior administration flows interchangeably with Big Pharma. Never forget that the CDC has a major ownership stake in the patents underlying mRNA vaccines.

[@tonysu8860]

​@@sciagurrato1831That's a bold lie that the CDC owns anything in the private corporate world. Prove your point and post references from reputable sources.

[@tonysu8860]

Not true. Despite this video'claim China's universities except for a handful don't produce many of the global best. Graduating from Peking University and a few others in Beijing is great but from others in China your diploma is fairly ordinary and not likely to get you a job by itself overseas. As for students from impoverished nations, I'm sure a Chinese university education is better than anything they could get at home.

[@leoncioco3305]

So the notion that higher tuition fee does not automatically translate to quality education is true.

[@agamliandy7843]

More expensive products are not necessary have better qualities either.

[@serriajohn]

@@agamliandy7843 The best soldiers were trained by hard exercise, not by money.

[@96518]

Sadly, it almost always does. Children who come from wealthy families are massively better resourced and have parents that are usually highly intelligent. No matter if education is free or not, the children of the wealthy are massively over represented in the world's best universities because of genes, environment and resources.

[@nicknico4121]

@@96518 poverty is more an indication of intelligence (absence of) than wealth. If you are low-IQ, you have 1 choice and it's to be poor. If you are high-IQ you have the choice to access any level of socio-economic status, stay poor, stay average, or become wealthy.

[@tonywatt3281]

It is without a doubt that the tertiary education system is top class and doesn't need international rankings to confirm, as China is leading in most industries and also leading in innovations.... just look at the recent green/battery/EV sectors, 5/6G, chips, space, drones, phones, infrastructures, and the list goes on, the facts speak for itself! They don't need to talk about it, they just do it. Show me a country that comes close.

[@coliv2]

According to recent German reporting it was all stolen from Germany by Chinese spies 😂😂😂

[@DW-op7ly]

@@coliv2 There is now a “27” book series on what China invented that says we stole or copied from China But we have had a Eurocentric view of things these last few hundred years 👇 Why was China erased from Western memory The remarkable history of Chinese invention - Why was China erased from Western memory? Article by 龙信明 Introduction Joseph Needham was an English medical doctor and biologist, teaching in England in the 1930s. By an accident of fate he acquired some Chinese students, and was intrigued to hear their claims of so many medical and scientific discoveries having originated in China, rather than in the West. Needham became fully fluent in Chinese, and eventually moved to China in 1942 to investigate these claims and to research the entire history of Chinese invention. That work led to an astonishing voyage of historical discovery. Needham originally planned to write a book cataloguing Chinese inventions, but his first volume barely scratched the surface of his subject. He slowly gatherred many of his students into this enterprise, and they eventually wrote a collection of 26 books, to catalog the history of Chinese discovery. Myth and Misrepresentation It leaves one speechless to learn the vast extent of things invented by the Chinese many hundreds of years, and often several millennia, before they appeared in the West. MySingaporeBlogSpot

[@user-qd8yg1fp7i]

Great comment. The results speak for themselves.

[@bundhepwanasbodikul9625]

@@coliv2 China’s global lead extends to 37 out of 44 technologies that ASPI is now tracking, covering a range of crucial technology fields spanning defence, space, robotics, energy, the environment, biotechnology, artificial intelligence (AI), advanced materials and key quantum technology areas.1 The Critical Technology Tracker shows that, for some technologies, all of the world’s top 10 leading research institutions are based in China and are collectively generating nine times more high-impact research papers than the second-ranked country (most often the US). Notably, the Chinese Academy of Sciences ranks highly (and often first or second) across many of the 44 technologies included in the Critical Technology Tracker. We also see China’s efforts being bolstered through talent and knowledge import: one-fifth of its high-impact papers are being authored by researchers with postgraduate training in a Five-Eyes country.2 China’s lead is the product of deliberate design and long-term policy planning, as repeatedly outlined by Xi Jinping and his predecessors.3

[@Praetorian157A]

Just look into the classrooms of chinese students from primary to high school and one can see that the Chinese education standard has risen sooo much.

[@desmondho9567]

All roads and rail and plane and ship leadings to China.

[@winyup7271]

Damn right!

[@peanut0brain]

The old silk road and now the new silk rd aka BRI

[@MetaView7]

all the politicians heading to China Macron, Scholz, Maloni, Yellen . . .

[@hz240]

All roads lead to ch1na period (includes the cosmos too)!! Well put.

[@peanut0brain]

@@hz240 the old silk rd was 1000s of yrs old before Marco Polo "discovered" China using EXISTING maps. The west loves "made in China". China is "zhongguo" = center of the world😂

[@trekpac2]

This was an extremely interesting talk. From Chile alone, 20,000 students getting scholarships in Chinese universities. And it is happening all over Belt and Road countries. In the next 20 years, these countries will have very strong links to China in evey conceivable way, helping to integrate economies, industries, people. And in 5 years, China will have 5 universies in the top 10 in the world and 40 in the top 100.

[@ZweiZwolf]

Exactly! When the leaders of the Global South learn how to do anti-imperialism by emulating China, the West is going to have a very tough time.

[@Praetorian157A]

Actually many chinese universities should be many times in higher placings instead of now as the scaling and grading system is biased towards western and US universities.

[@fannyalbi9040]

ya

[@DJs021]

They do but typical mainland Chinese especially from rural tend to think "land of freedom" have better and higher standard of education. They rather don't eat, wear worn clothes just to fund their kids abroad especially to America but they don't realize China University is better, stricter and syllabus is more to science + tech instead of "gender confusing/dorm s3x party/get laid" in America.

[@kibakobo]

Good topic ! Chinese they believe in ‘good will’ without being ‘transactional’, ‘no strings attached’.

[@tonysu8860]

Not so. Articles about students from Africa describe stings attached although they might be in the form of job opportunities no one else but the Chinese government might offer.

[@gregwang8628]

@@tonysu8860your point?

[@kaleeysmith8801]

@@tonysu8860 so they offered 50,000 scholarships to african students and the strings attached to it is called a 'job offer'? that's a bad thing? really? is this an upside down world we live in or what or is it just in your head?

[@hernansantos6320]

False. China always attached. If you can not Pay loans at higher rate, China takes you down and takes over at your country.

[@oneplacegifts5946]

Kids from wealthy families, among whom many are academically doomed in China ‘s educational institutions would choose to skip college entrance exams and study in western countries. And things wouldn’t always turn out rosy for them when they swim back to the Chinese shore. Chances are they would once again be outsmarted by their locally educated peers. 😢

[@user-ed7rz7nl5i]

100% agree with you on this comment!

[@brucelu4782]

Not necessarily, they have couch jobs waiting for them or a family fortunate to inherit.

[@mittao86]

So true

[@paulyi729]

US politicians say, don't worry, we produce the best and most lawyers anyway 😂

[@douginorlando6260]

About half of US government politicians in Senate & Congress are lawyers.

[@JA-pn4ji]

A lot of the high-ranked Western universities are actually in the main liberal arts institutions (Yale, Princeton, Oxford, Harvard... ) famous for producing lawyers and humanities graduates. When measured on a purely technical-engineering basis Chinese universities come out even higher in the rankings.

[@justjacqueline2004]

Agree,the Engineering in China is superb and very demanding courses.

[@tonysu8860]

Those American universities are known for more than liberal arts. Most if not all have strong law schools which is nearly non-existent in all of China. Most have strong medical schools far advanced of anything that exists in China and the same is true for related sciences like biology. And MIT is regularly considered the leader or among others at the top in engineering and technology, far advanced ahead of anything seen in China. Those are just a few examples but it's why the US is so far ahead in knowledge and technology. China does a good job improving on ideas but is very backward in researching the basic and advanced sciences.

[@JA-pn4ji]

@@tonysu8860 You may say that but I know in the UK, that Imperial College is the top scientific-engineering-medical university but doesn't even appear in the global list. This means that the difference in ranking between Oxford-Cambridge and Imperial College is accounted for by their liberal arts curriculum and reputation. What this tells us is that these general global rankings do not inform us much about science-technology rankings. As to the US superiority in medical schools, that can be discounted by the number of Americans that actually have access to the best medical treatment. China's institutions are coming from not even appearing in the top 100 a decade ago. That they now feature in the top 10 is testimony to their improvement and closing the gap with Western institutions. In the main, these Chinese institutions are not advancing up the rankings based on a liberal arts curriculum, i.e. producing lawyers and humanities graduates. They are advancing up the rankings based on their excellence in scientific-technical education. These rankings are not a static unchanging table and the direction of travel for China's institutions points to matching and even superseding Western universities.

[@Userkzb20253]

Not true, they also produces top notch scientists. Check their novel winners.

[@UnitedAfrica-uw9ct]

@@tonysu8860 you still believe that ! , if the US is far ahead Gina Raimondo , Blinken and Yelen wouldn't be issuing threats to China.....they are certainly not doing that to any other country in Asia, except may be North Korea...China is producing high class Engineers than any other countries in the world ,China leads the world in 37 out of 44 critical technologies....so again what are you talking about here ?

[@willengel2458]

there are two types of Chinese students in the US. 1. Ivy league - Cream of the crop who wants to excel. 2. party- school, for those from well to do family who couldn't get into top or good university in China.

[@justjacqueline2004]

Considering how hard the Chinese students work no wonder the Universities are leaping ahead. Guanxi is vital no matter where.

[@7hx89]

I don’t know it’s a good thing or bad thing for humanity. But US schools are not accepting Chinese STEM students. It has been largely the huge contribution from the brightest Chinese students to the US that maintains the high productivity and academic ranking. Look who is running Nvidia and AMD vs Intel. And look who was/is running the engineering team at Boeing then (during its golden ages) and Tesla now.

[@felixsu375]

Very few foreigners can afford American Universities. The price just keeps going up and up and up. It's so far up now that they're practically in space. Even Americans are having a tough time trying to afford it unless you come from wealthy families. Or you can take out an mortgage for it.

[@rap3208]

the colleges have priced themselves out of students, even the homegrown ones. the tuition is so high, kids are already convincing themselves that college is not necessasry to be succesful. Thus nobody wants to be engineers, researchers, or study in the STEm fields, how can they when the tuition is out of their reach.

[@audrey72537]

Students from the US also have a hard time justifying the cost of college in the US.

[@priscillaferguson267]

China is investing in people for a prosperous future for China and around the world.

[@daveh5947]

Isn't it similar in Africa? China educating Students for whatever is needed in any particular Country.

[@benkenobi292]

China and Russia both play the long game. Both offer scholarships to Asian, African and South American countries.

[@godfatherofcinema]

Fantastic analysis glad I Discovered this channel keep up the great work😊😊

[@justme6275]

the table is turning...

[@horridohobbies]

According to the *CWTS Leiden Ranking 2023,* most of the universities that produce the most scientifically impactful research are Chinese - that’s 16 out of the top 25 universities!

[@tonysu8860]

That's misleading. That evaluation would be true in application and implementation but ignores the fact that China typically isn't the original creator, discoverer or owner of that technology. For anything that's open source and publicly licensed, China can do whatever it can with that technology with few restrictions but for anything that's publicly licensed, China has problems.

[@horridohobbies]

@@tonysu8860 China is granted more patents than the USA and Japan combined! In 2021, China was granted 607,758 patents. USA, 286,205 patents. Japan, 256,890 patents. China is highly inventive and innovative.

[@jimmychoi5219]

So Chinese students are missing out on US WOKE culture & LGBTQ++ if they choose US universities 🤣🤣🤣

[@jggouvea]

I pity them. Where else could then get gender studies PhD? Or is it PTSD?

[@kaleeysmith8801]

@@jggouvea i THOUGHT you were joking until i googled it. WOW unreal, the duimbest sh1t i ever seen! They might as well give Ph.D in watching and studying how birds take a sh1t while flying at the same time, a 4yr education is needed for this.

[@user-os4fd4yl8z]

Gender study is another useless degree.

[@jggouvea]

@@kaleeysmith8801 Wait, I WAS JOKING. Don't tell me that "Gender studies PhD" exists! Please, I want to remain ignorant.

[@mihotleenkwei3884]

Lol one of the reasons why many Chinese working/living in the US are flying back home is because they fear the schools in America will cut off their children’s d*k…especially so for those IT workers in California😅

[@briannewman6216]

Why any Chinese parents would send their kids to the US for an education is difficult to understand given the fall of Western universities.

[@hanmi1216]

Benar sekali. Berangkat hanya tau 2 gender, pulangnya bawa ratusan gender Yang membingungkan...

[@multiplierfx6429]

Those who failed to enter Chinese top universities have no choice but to go abroad.

[@johnc1873]

Because it’s far easier to get into a top university in USA. It’s like 10x harder to get into Tsinghua than Harvard. Too much competition to go university in China

[@sui-yu-er-an]

Cause they are not competitive in China period.

[@gilgilgilbear]

@@hanmi1216 Chinese best two uni accept 8k students every year, and there are more than 10 million students every year attend college entrance exam.

[@BL-db6xt]

管仲 Guan Zhong (720 - 645 BCE): “The best investment for one year is to grow grains; the best investment for ten years is to grow trees; the best investment for a lifetime is to educate people“ Chinese origine: 一年之計，莫如樹穀; 十年之計，莫如樹木； 終生之計，莫如樹人 . American universities treat their students as the milk cows. The longest term planing in the US is 2 years. Since in the 1st year of the president so preoccupied with blaming the previous regime. The 4th yr is the election campaigning year: mega talks but no meaningful action.

[@fannyalbi9040]

奇貨可居也😂

[@CharlotteAdam360]

Most rich people stay rich by spending like the poor and investing without stopping then most poor people stay poor by spending like the rich yet not investing like the rich but impressing them

[@Juanw5ayne]

People prefer to spend money on liabilities, Rather than investing in assets and be very profitable

[@DaniCharney]

You are so correct! Save, invest and spend for necessities and a few small luxuries relatives to one's total assets ratio.

[@KaylaRussell77]

Making a living is becoming more challenging, and it's difficult for me to save enough to enjoy quality time with my loved ones.

[@MarieRandy438]

Even though digital currency has taken over the world, people still work for people. So, why not consider buying stocks and crypto and holding onto them?

[@Kelompok16SistemMultimedia]

That's a great point! With the rise of digital currency, investing in stocks and crypto can be a smart move. It's a way to potentially grow your wealth and secure your financial future.

[@MASMIWA]

And some 40% are STEM majors which are the necessary manpower ingredients to power the technology industrial revolution. You presented an excellent expose of China's rise in education and what that portends for the future of China and its relationship with other countries. Relationships matter in business and government so finding and building on these relationships from college years are important as much as education is. Today, China graduates twice as many university students as the US and that ratio is growing. The Chinese value education and families are willing sacrifice all their family wealth to see their kid(s) get the best education they can afford.

[@hz240]

Another grim sign of the demise and accelerating downfall of the u$ imperial empire. Anyone on this post care to predict the future u$ socioeconomic outlook based on this trend? 📈 No crystal ball needed. The writing is definitely on the wall!

[@ZweiZwolf]

The generational impact of Chinese university education is yet to be seen. Over the past couple hundred years, the majority of the world's leaders were educated in Western universities, especially Atlantic UK & US ones like Oxford, Harvard, Princeton, & Yale. They were conditioned and trained for Western democracy and capitalism. China is now educating the future leaders of the Global South where they can see the general prosperity of a market socialist economy under a meritocratic bureaucracy, and receive education in Communism with Chinese Characteristics so that they can implement it at home. In 20 years, the West will be in for a rude shock as the Global South takes back their economies.

[@vestasharp6861]

If you go to a US university you will have 6 figures in student debt (unless you have rich parents). Or go to China and have no debt.

[@rap3208]

Nice plan, just be careful you might get accused by the US government as a spy for the chinese.

[@soothsayer2406]

Awesome, Good day, be good.

[@Easyly1953]

Priority for education is part of Chinese culture since 1000s of years ago.

[@userngot]

All top twenty five mathematics and computer science universities are in China according to the CWTS Leiden University Ranking 2023.

[@jilidkuminding7356]

China Universities are SIMPLY THE BEST! ❤❤❤ 👏👏👏

[@joeyp1927]

No surprise here: the concept of a moral, well-run society rooted in a professional class selected by meritocratic examination comes from China, which tied education, good governance and civil services 2,000 years ago. Prospective office-holders would spend years studying classic texts in math, poetry, history, etc., then take a written exam. The British adopted this system in the 1850s for their own civil service system, based on a proposal written by Trevelyan and Northcote, two officials who were familiar with this 'Mandarin' system.

[@jean-marcducommun8185]

Imagine ... If the US would have invested the money for wars around the planet to offer high education and free university admission to foreigners over the last 40 years. I can't imagine where the US would be today but I can see the state of the affaire looking downtown SF, LA, ...

[@thomaskim3128]

The US/EU should launch a unfair pricing investigation onto Chinese higher education. /s

[@raymondtay9442]

Shhhhh... don't tell them please, please, please!

[@DragonYang01]

China has overcapacity in their education which ruins American university business. We should put a tariff to American students who choose to study in China to make an even plain field for American universities to compete.

[@thomaskim3128]

@@DragonYang01 No. That would be a terrible idea. People exchange/interaction is better for overcoming political vitriol. China should encourage Americans to visit and study in China and let Americans see for themselves that their rabid politicians have been gaslighting them.

[@BSnicks]

Many EU countries have free education.

[@edwardyuan8116]

@@BSnicksthat is true but first China is an emerging superpower and second Chinese respect all people, regardless of their origins, religions etc. the 5000 years Chinese civilization is very inclusive.

[@passby8070]

Breaking news! Jenet Yellen is coming to China to complain about the over supply of quality education at an affordable cost.

[@GNH-1812]

you are so right! the us' education prestige and diploma losses value: incompatible with local labor market

[@LOEARLEIMPERIO-lr9vt]

Informative, thank you for sharing, this a way to our world a better place

[@directxxxx71]

海歸 HaiGui isn't sea turtle, it's only the pronunciation which sounds the same. Hai is the short form of " 海外 Hai Wai" which means " oversea or abroad" . Gui is the short form of " 歸來Gui Lai“ which means "come back". So Hai Gui isn't Sea Turtle, it actually means 海外歸來 Hai Wai Gui Lai ， which means those who " Came back from abroad or foreign countries " or shoart form as " Hai Gui 海歸.“

[@komalakosasih7629]

I still prefer "sea turtle"😂

[@rowo4956]

I thought sea turtle was brilliant.

[@albback8176]

Makes sense. Lower costs appeal more to developing nation students. NA universities are way too expensive.

[@henrychua2449]

There is a chinese saying....if small money don't go out big money won't come in.

[@summerchina6568]

The Chinese are playing Wei Qi, where each move lays the groundwork that is strategically important twenty moves later. The Americans are playing Tic Tac Toe where every move is either an immediate gain or loss.

[@brianliew5901]

This is one of Sun Tzu's strategies of winning even before one goes to war. 😂

[@horridohobbies]

Thank you for a most insightful video.

[@canalesjuan356]

Chinese universities have been underrated for so long. Cuz in the western ranking system, politics are always involved. For example, One of the scoring criteria would be: "democratic level" and takes 20 grades, and Chinese unis got 0 on this one, Ofc the rank has always been low. This is how most of the western ranking works.

[@JohnSmith-sm7ez]

You just can’t accept that they are better. Pathetic tribalism

[@kibakobo]

Fundamental factor which We always tend to overlook. American High school / Elementary school is in shambles.

[@richardchong366]

BACK ON TOP!!

[@michaeltse6961]

Man I love your outlook into China's future 💪🙏🙏

[@thehungergames8918]

Thank you for the information Kevin 😃👍

[@Oscar-vr2md]

Not everything has to revolve around profit, especially education.

[@SH-bw5fx]

This reportage is absolute fact A massive number of international students from all over the world including from.the USA are converging to PRC universities in last 2 decades , fair cost , no student loans tied up on graduate s neck , quality improvement , etc.. Is the main driver for this influx .

[@user-xp4of2vu4r]

It's relatively easy to understand and agree with the domestic view of 'home grown' is better - for a variety of reasons - and why spend huge $$$ to fund such extravagance that does not help the home country? The same is true back here in the way we now run our universities - much of what is taught (for big $$) is basically worthless - from an educational point or as a 'network' value. Thanks for the message. With Yale accepting EDI, that says it all. Unlike most of the West, the Orient has always taken the 'long view' as it has been around for thousands of years with deep, unwavering ties to history, 'family' and cultural tradition. All in all, not a bad way to live and pass on life.

[@user-xq8qx6bg2j]

❤❤Kevin, sounds like the cracks in our system is beginning to show😳⁉️

[@moreless2690]

China's main objective is willing to invest in the long-term to build The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI or B&R). In order to improve their future, corporations must win with mutual respect. As humans, we all require a better life. The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.

[@namelesswarrior4760]

Some of the sea turtles come back thinking that they are special and treat the locals like trash. Not having it.

[@Zerpentsa6598]

The Anglo--Saxon universities in US, UK and Australia take overseas students to boost their income. Decisions (e.g. to admit) there are often taken on financial grounds. China is not taking on overseas students to make money. They don't have to. The top ones take overseas students if they are promising and can return to help their home countries. Often they can receive scholarships.

[@wsurfer2147]

For Latin American students, all they need to do is to look at history and see what the Europeans has done to them for the past several centuries, they would turn to China in a heartbeat.

[@raghubirraghubir]

Most informative. Thanks a lot.

[@thierrylaval4449]

Be good yourself.

[@davydacounsellor]

I remember in 2008 the ex CEO of the IMF telling US students at Harvard the money and middle class is moving east, looks like he was right, 97,000 chinese students were studying in the US at that time, brain drain, only 19,000 US students in China studing.

[@jameswong07]

China has a far vision., Well.done to Chinese government ❤ its a win win strategy on long term investment 🎉

[@erichin888]

you can't interpret 'haigui' as sea turtle although they shared the same pronunciation "gui" but "gui" in this context is returnee.haigui means overseas returnee.

[@laohu5511]

This is your best video yet. You summed it up.

[@romyhosaka8340]

Thanks for sharing

[@sarahkhan2310]

China is a blessing and benefactor to the world 👍♥️🇨🇳

[@mrgreen1633]

Really enjoy your reports.Keep them up

[@Ne0Freedom]

For a comparison, Undergraduate tution fee of George Mason University, in USA, in 2006: 900$ per course, per 5-month-semester $900 x4 courses x2 semester = 7200 US Dollars / year ! & that does not include the make up courses during summer vacation, if needed.

[@michaellorton8099]

Must give credit where credit is due. The Chinese university system has vastly improved and the Chinese outreach policies outlined here are very wise. The U.S. must rethink its outreach approach to South and Central America. The U.S must also increase focus on STEM and computer science at every level. I am teaching myself Spanish to add to my English and German. Thank you, Mr. Walmsley.

[@parttimethinker7611]

Wow, I was just wondering why you were so wise, Kevin. I didn’t realize that you’re in academia, in Singhua of all places. Happy for you.

[@Userkzb20253]

The colleague in China is so affordable despite Chinese don’t much taxes compared to the U.S. US college used to be very affordable, what gives?

[@northyorksimonkim]

I noticed this just yesterday when I was looking through the world university rankings, there are a lot of Chinese universities on there now.

[@banshong3997]

Difference is strategic thinking vs tactical thinking and fighting losing wars 😂😂😂cos we're the USA as senile Biden says😂😂😂

[@jeanlaikan8400]

Mr. Kevin is someone who understands China in depth

[@DK-ev9dg]

It's all China's world out there.

[@wingkeeho5864]

Haiguis are not getting any preference in China now, so it is better to study at home. It is amazing how good Chinese students pick up foreign languages without going abroad.

[@etbuch4873]

You said it right. Ich bin Chinese, und aus Taiwan. Schon während meines Gymnasiums konnte ich Englisch sprechen, und im zweiten Jahr an der Universität lernte ich Deutsch - ebenfalls in Taiwan. Genau wie Sie sagten, ohne ins Ausland zu gehen.

[@stellacheng6023]

Same idea when Britain educated foreign students from colonies..

[@hc1897]

As someone who, 30 years ago, went as an Asian student to Cambridge University on full scholarship inclusive of room & board, I can say that sheer appreciation for a top education given freely (albeit earned with a LOT of hard work) gives rise to an emotional bond between the student and the institution which lasts for decades and is hard to break.

[@siberiantiger1585]

"gui" though sounding like the character "turtle" actually is the character for "return", so "hai gui" means someone who has returned to China after studying abroad.

[@petrushka2]

海龜 海歸 it can be both.

[@ericchong9304]

It simply just doesn't make sense to pay 10x more tuition fee to get similar quality of education. You can use that extra money as downpayment for house or as capital to start a business after graduate.

[@siberiantiger1585]

Great video! I remember a Charlie Rose episode in the 2000s when he interviewed a Columbia University provost who spent a year in China studying and recommending improvements to Chinese universities, on an invitation from the Chinese government. The academic concluded that Chinese universities are rising but will never catch up to US universities because they lack the requisite academic freedom and cited, for support, the fall of preeminent German universities after the Nazis came to power.

[@steaminglobster]

You always touch any topic profoundly. America is over-charging all the essential needs for normal people, so everything is over-complicated than necessary to get cost back. China has a mindset of simple way is the best way, and education is way affordable than USA. So when people say USA is developed country is kind of ironic: if it is more developed, should make everything easier for normal people instead of the opposite?

[@MetaView7]

The capitalist system's mission is to capture the maximum amount of money the buyer is willing to pay -- to the amount that is way over its equitable value if there is more than one buyer bidding for the same item. That's why so many commodities are overpriced. eg. housing in the big city.

[@ZhenYae]

It is a page out of Singapore's education system.

[@yoingen]

Student loans in the United States actually carry high interest rates. I was surprised when I heard this news.

[@magnaviator]

US education system from k-12 through grad school is broken. We can't afford to send our daughter to the same schools we went to. WTF.

[@chanahyingchan5070]

Kevin, you should be running for US Presidency.

[@douginorlando6260]

Wow. A typical Chinese family can now afford to get their child through University and graduate without a debt burden. It the US it used to be that way but in 2 decades the typical middle class Chinese family’s purchasing power has increased while US family’s purchasing power has decreased. Nowadays US students typically graduate with a huge debt burden. And laws were passed that make it impossible to ever avoid paying by declaring bankruptcy … even for the millions of students who never graduate and those who were enticed into pursuit of worthless degrees.

[@ZweiZwolf]

China sees higher education as a public good. The US sees higher education has higher profits.

[@vilester]

Uni rankings are also bias towards western universities as well. Chinese universities actually rank a lot higher.

[@barrywong4327]

Affordability, quality and reliability. That’s what China offers to the world at large in every spectrum. In addition, China extends an open arm to the developing countries to share its success with them. Unlike the US empire, whose sole goal is to preserve its hegemonic power so as to continue to dominate the world, China’s vision of the world is vastly different and superior - a harmonious and peaceful world where everyone prospers and no single country dominates the rest. To understand and appreciate why China does things a certain way, one must first understand China’s vision and therefore its motivations. Kevin, I reject the notion that China is educating the brightest minds from other developing countries with an ulterior motive - the calculus that one day these China-educated intellectuals would favor China in some way. That’s exactly the mindset of colonialists and imperialists from the west - always calculating how to dominate others through manipulation. China genuinely believes in their higher vision of the world. It is lending a helping hand to countries that are hoping to travel the same path that China has. That’s the Confucius way - be humble and generous to others. That’s the only way to achieve harmony.

[@eman67rp]

The more educated people you have, the world would be a better place.

[@koneos6580]

Chinese studies US universities now post a risk being accuse of SPY or being discriminated as well. Not to mention the living cost. Just isn't make sense for them to pursue higher education while their homeland provide same.

[@fannyalbi9040]

yutuber ben norton is getting his phd in chinese university now

[@mayleetan6518]

If China can offer jobs to overseas students upon graduation, i think a lot of overseas students will go to study in China.

[@kevinwang6852]

这种想法很危险，自己国家的学生都不包分配，还给留学生超国民待遇，肯定会被骂死

[@kittydukakis]

Tuition in private universities is around $42,000. Add in room and board and take that number X4, and it much more than $200,000.

[@dewinmoonl]

It's not really about US university vs Chinese university. It's just good vs bad, and Chinese universities have been just getting better. If you have a PhD from MIT, Chinese still recognizes that as valuable. My friend did PhD at Georgia tech, post doc at MIT, and now is professor at Peking university. In fact, university professors are filled with top US graduates, especially in AI. The confound here is there are two kinds of students who study abroad from China. Those who are talented and got in on merits, and those with rich parents who paid money 😅