> Innovation requires creativity, critical thinking, outside the box thinking, etc etc etc... All things which China's PRC sees as a threat to their power so they squash it down
Look up the latest thread on the American education system. You'll find a large proportion of the comments claim that the same thing has been going on in America ever since education was socialized.
I live in Japan. By any outside measure, this country has zero critical or out of the box thinking, and has a complete groupthink culture. And yet it's been a major source of progress. I wouldn't count out human nature. Their biggest threat would be brain drain, but the US hates immigrants these days, which really plays in their favor.
Look up the latest thread on the American education system. You'll find a large proportion of the comments claim that the same thing has been going on in America ever since education was socialized.
I live in Japan. By any outside measure, this country has zero critical or out of the box thinking, and has a complete groupthink culture. And yet it's been a major source of progress. I wouldn't count out human nature. Their biggest threat would be brain drain, but the US hates immigrants these days, which really plays in their favor.