He says the elite concluded after Trump's victories that democracy cannot be trusted to produce obedient outcomes, so the solution is an AI-driven surveillance technocracy run by engineers, bureaucrats, and technocrats.
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Elite distrust
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Key Notes
Jiang argues poorer or less mobile families resist reform because Gaokao still appears to be their only credible route to upward mobility and reform looks like elite sabotage of that route.
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"expect from the midterms yeah so I think that the powers that be and they're coming they're coming to recognition that for all Trump's..."
"Everyone in China recognizes there has to be education reform in China now. It's urgent, it's necessary, and it's going to determine the future..."
"-well -off Chinese to rise in the Chinese system. So if they're reforming the Gaokao, and they're a lot... they want the change with..."
Relevant Lectures And Readings
The interview sounds scattered at first, but its logic is consistent.
The interview begins with a familiar Western panic: Shanghai tops PISA again, so maybe the future belongs to China.
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