Who Benefits From the Dumbing Down of American Education? China

Graduating students pose for a class picture at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), in Los Angeles on June 14, 2019. Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images

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Planning, according to the American author Alan Lakein, involves “bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.” If you want to buy a new house in five years, it helps to start saving today. To have a thriving economy going forward, it helps to have well-trained, highly skilled graduates. That’s good news for China.