But.. but... how does that affect your SOCIAL CREDIT SCORE?
Xi Jinping, from the article: Chinese education is capable of nurturing maestros
OK he wants to focus on STEM [specifically IC making], and that's a good thing. But what will the 'cost' be to the students to GET that education?
In a nation that has a concept of "social credit" determined by how good of a CCP member you are, I fear the level of INDOCTRINATION that would go hand-in-hand with the education. "The Price" for getting educated MAY be 'getting indoctrinated'. And would social credit determine who GETS A CHANCE at it?
And it has been my observation, or at least In My Bombastic Opinion, that an oppressive society with secret police, heavy censorship, and that "social credit score" (that makes my navel pucker up and the hairs on the back of my neck stand up like a cat 'petted backwards') isn't going to innovate so well.
It is hard to think up new ways of doing things when the nail that sticks up gets "the hammer". Or worse, "gets disappeared". [if these threats are not real, they are apparently perceived by the people who live under the thumb of the CCP]
(This of course is conjecture and interpretation on my part, but the CONCEPT of 'social credit score' seems consistent with this, at least to me)