That’s because it’s not.

I think part of it is the disillusionment of us Americans with the USA. I grew up being proud to be a citizen of the USA. The more I learned of our true history, the more I grew up, the slipping quality of life - the huge issues we have with healthcare, infrastructure, income inequality and ineffectual government ... All of that seems at least less bad in China.

Now, I'm not gonna glaze China - that country has plenty of its own problems. However, they at least seem to be embracing emerging and mature green energy tech, are not on an anti intellectual path and have a functional government (which is not to say I don't have plenty of problems with China). Also they seem to be less interested in killing people for ... Reasons? ... Vs the USA who conducts diplomacy by violent means as the normal course.

Anyways yeah I guess China just seems like a better place than the USA right now but you could level plenty of valid complaints at both countries.

I'm guessing there's more in China but yeah, there is a lot here.

Lemmy has limited propaganda detection. China's government and the US both warp history, and China's government has employed thousands of disinformation "keyboard warriors" well before the era of AI disinformation and propaganda. I've personally met one. The difference between the two governments, for now, is the ability to talk about issues like the live organ harvesting of political prisoners or China's slow genocide of the East Turkestan nation.

The article is about students from Asia and Africa, not the US.

I'm guessing you mean Early childhood education. Stupid acronyms everywhere (SAE, I called it).

A former coworker of mine used to run a child care in Beijing before she came to us. You could see the difference in her first group with us; they were very disciplined, and she was kinda focused on making little performances. But she changed her style soon.

That said, she ran it privately in Beijing, so I'm going to take a wild guess that preschool stuff is more free market than dictated in China.

edit: hmm, I guess you were asking about studying that in PRC

Well yeah it does. Wealthier people from non Western nations are no longer sending their kids to Western nations for education but to China. One day you will figure out the vast majority of people in the world is not white.

It seems they are capitalizing the vacuum russia left on its prior sphere of influence...

Can you name a country where that isn't the case? Why single out china?

Yeah...not like the USA.

Are you projecting the West on China?

With the us and Russia in free fall, China is the assumed number 1 super power in the near future. And they've done an amazing job in the last 30 years developing the nation, lifting people out of poverty, and growing their soft power. But a population and housing crisis could really hamper things so its really anyone's game right now.