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  • Only tangentially related, but I fully expect Tsinghua University and Peking University to become household names in the global South and quite possibly the West in the near future. The American University system isn't a means of education, but rather a product sold to families. Harvard in particular is moreso a brand than a school and exists to make a profit not to educate. This difference is especially seen in how Chinese universities focus on improvement as opposed to American ones. For universities in China to improve, they increase funding, increase enrollment, increase staff and improve facilities. Meanwhile, for American universities to improve they need to go through a process that I can only describe as high energy marketing bullshit (for example Northeastern's shenanigans). Chinese education is higher throughput, more economical, more difficult, and a cause for the Chinese century.

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