Many people have a vested interest in pretending otherwise, but the US research university is globally dominant to an almost unbelievable degree. The typical state university is a football team stapled to a R&D lab with a budget bigger than the entire nation of Belgium.
Quantian
This is a paranoid fantasy that the media encourages but it’s actually not true. The US produces a very educated populace.
It’s just that the sheer scale of our R&D requires drawing on the finest talents of a far larger population base via immigration.
Zoomer Antimillenarian
2/ The US is incapable of educating its citizens, hence the ~50% immigrants doing R&D. As RoW catches up post colonialism, WWII and neo colonialism, there will still be movement but it will no longer be unidirectional.
China is relatively well placed currently to gain a lot of soft power.
