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The expansion of college attendance did not make America equal; Jiang links it to rising inequality, falling social mobility, student debt, and youth depression.
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Student debt
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Jiang says many American universities recruiting Chinese students are not equipped to support them, while American higher education itself faces student-debt and completion-rate problems that make Chinese enrollment only a temporary bandage.
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"So now it can import all these German scientists. And that's why it dominates today. So the best universities in the world are now..."
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"...are becoming much more expensive. Okay? So this is leading to student debt."
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"Okay? And you can see how student debt, student loans, has gone way up. So in America, student loans, student debt, is the only..."
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"...education system. Because look at the stats. There's one trillion in student debt. Students are... Student debt right now is considered like one of..."
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"So I don't think this is a marriage made in heaven. I think there's a problem. There's some real serious issues that we need..."
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"...certainly his ambition and he would cancel all of that, including student debt, including mortgages, which is and this would be tremendous relief to..."
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The interview begins with a familiar Western panic: Shanghai tops PISA again, so maybe the future belongs to China.
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