Re: 美國衰落速度 繫於人才

也许有人认为鳳凰衛視資深評論員只是他一人之见。以下是几天前在美国Foreign Affairs 发表的文章：
大小标题是：美国实力基础的坍塌--知识就是力量，美国正在失去它。
The Crumbling Foundations of American Strength
Knowledge Is Power—and the United States Is Losing It
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/crumbling-foundations-american-strength-amy-zegart
“For centuries, a nation’s power stemmed from tangible resources that
its government could see, measure, and generally control, such as
populations that could be conscripted, territory that could be
conquered, navies that could be deployed, and goods that could be
released or restricted, such as oil.
..
Today, countries increasingly derive power from intangible resources—the
knowledge and technologies such as AI that are super-charging economic
growth, scientific discovery, and military potential.
..
Knowledge power has two essential elements: the ability to innovate and
the ability to anticipate. The first relates to a country’s capacity to
produce and harness technological breakthroughs. The second has to do
with intelligence.
..
The components of knowledge power can be hard to see and quantify. But a
good place to start is national educational proficiency levels.
Overwhelming evidence shows that a well-educated workforce drives
long-term economic growth. In 1960, East Asia nearly tied sub-Saharan
Africa for the lowest GDP per capita in the world. Over the next 30
years, however, East Asia vaulted ahead, spurred in large measure by
educational improvements.
..
Gauging a nation’s long-term power prospects also requires measuring the
health of its research universities. Companies play an essential role in
technological innovation, but the innovation supply chain really begins
earlier, in campus labs and classrooms.
..
If education and innovation are key to the United States’ ability to
project power, then the country’s prospects are on shaky ground.
American K–12 education is in crisis. Students today are scoring worse
on proficiency tests than they have in decades and falling behind their
peers abroad. U.S. universities are struggling, too, as they face
greater global competition for talent and chronic federal
underinvestment in the basic research that is vital for long-term
innovation."