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Asked what he would do as a 12th grader, Jiang says university is now a rip-off because students pay administrators rather than professors; he would focus on self-education and real skills.
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Higher Education
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He argues that American higher education structurally needs Chinese students because many domestic students no longer see college as worth the cost, and Chinese enrollment helps keep the system afloat.
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Jiang says roughly 300,000 Chinese students are studying in American colleges, which he treats as evidence that American soft power has effectively conquered China.
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Jiang says there are about 300,000 Chinese undergraduate students in American colleges.
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Jiang argues that Chinese employers no longer rate graduates of American colleges especially highly, which weakens a purely economic explanation for studying in the United States.
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Jiang says the large postwar expansion of universities created many institutions that should have been trade schools or professional schools rather than universities.
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"Look, look, look, Chinese students, the most of the U.S. higher education system would collapse. OK, many, many American students are recognizing that going..."
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"Right. So, I mean, the reality in China is that for the past 30, 40 years, China has really embraced the West. So there..."
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"KorView句 Yeah. So I'll, give a car car career example. Okay. I work in the Chinese education system, so so I see this all..."
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"the country yeah so i so what people do is they rationalize um and you know i've been working in this industry for the..."
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"...are you still going to pursue for a further education, a higher education, or were you going to just drop out?"
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"Yeah. Okay. That is a great question. So you are... You guys are about to go to university, and as I told you in..."
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"Okay? There's no space for you. Okay? So the only thing you can do in this context is to really start educating yourself in..."
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"That's right. Yeah. So I think that in the past few years, America has become a credentialized society. And before it wasn't. Before you..."
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"of the tertiary education system of higher education of universities and a lot of these universities have absolutely no business being universities they should..."
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"...also been a committee member for the committee on trust in higher education which just published this report about a month ago he still..."
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"...has written for the Wall Street Journal and the Chronicle of Higher Education. I'm feeling very privileged to have you here. Welcome, Jiang. Thanks,..."
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"I became a freelance journalist writing for a higher education. I did a PBS documentary. And then I was arrested when I was working..."
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A source-grounded reading of a five-hour hybrid workshop that begins with Macbeth and ends by turning Purgatory, free will, tragedy, envy, and generosity into one model of human transformation.
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Jiang's education argument begins with a narrow definition and ends with a democratic dream.
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Jiang starts with his own formation story: a bullied immigrant reader, Yale disillusionment, depression, poker, game theory, and then a predictive method that treats society as a game played by distinct personalities.
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Jiang starts from the harshest frame available: Iran is not one more crisis but the hinge on which the next half-century turns.
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The interview begins with a European emergency and ends in the Caribbean, but Jiang treats both as one argument: Washington is willing to let allies absorb the blast radius while using regional pressure to...
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The interview starts in Venezuela and ends in Chinese classrooms, but Jiang treats the whole route as one argument about empire under strain: Washington uses frontier pressure to force China into carrying the American...
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Jiang begins with prediction as a disciplined loop, then turns the whole century into a religious struggle in disguise.
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