Comment by jltsiren
19 hours ago
Kids may want to learn Chinese for the same reason they may want to learn Arabic or Spanish. It helps doing business in some parts of the world.
But China is not going to be the dominant superpower (except maybe if they manage to beat the rest of the world in AI). Their labor force is already in decline, which means they must gradually shift their focus from building the future to maintaining the society. Like Europe and Japan are already doing.
As opposed to the US, where the labor market will magically start growing net of immigration?
If people don’t want to move to the US, then America will get the same treatment.