There's actually a theory going around that one of the elements of China's R&D advantage is that most Chinese researchers speak enough English to read and understand English-language research papers in their field, whereas the vast majority of Westoids doing research cannot string together a single sentence of Chinese.
This disparity will only get worse as Western Sinophobia ramps up and more ethnic Chinese researchers seek work in China instead of the West.
Hilarious consequence of neoliberalism example #69420: the hollowning out and eventual inversion of the core-studies-periphery dynamic.
Start with all the huge government, academic, and business institutions dedicated to managing imperialism, which produced a tremendous amount of knowledge and area experts that made the periphery legible to the core. All of that gets defunded, cut, or outsourced due to neoliberalism, which also produces a steady stream of educated people flowing from core to periphery to teach ESL classes. A few decades later your core-studies-periphery institutions are failing right as the core becomes more legible than ever to the people of the periphery.
There's actually a theory going around that one of the elements of China's R&D advantage is that most Chinese researchers speak enough English to read and understand English-language research papers in their field, whereas the vast majority of Westoids doing research cannot string together a single sentence of Chinese.
This disparity will only get worse as Western Sinophobia ramps up and more ethnic Chinese researchers seek work in China instead of the West.
Hilarious consequence of neoliberalism example #69420: the hollowning out and eventual inversion of the core-studies-periphery dynamic.
Start with all the huge government, academic, and business institutions dedicated to managing imperialism, which produced a tremendous amount of knowledge and area experts that made the periphery legible to the core. All of that gets defunded, cut, or outsourced due to neoliberalism, which also produces a steady stream of educated people flowing from core to periphery to teach ESL classes. A few decades later your core-studies-periphery institutions are failing right as the core becomes more legible than ever to the people of the periphery.