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Alice Han believes China's education system is more meritocratic than the current American system.
“I would even hazard a statement which is that I believe China may be more meritocratic today than America is. Given this system, given the way in which education and scholastic intelligence are lionized, I would say that China today is probably more meritocratic than the US.”
The Prof G Pod · Feb 2026 · 1 episode · 38K views on this topicJames Kynge characterizes China's genius camp system as brutally competitive and the antithesis of egalitarianism.
“I think this is so different from what people might imagine happens in a country that is governed by a party that calls itself communist but is in fact anything but egalitarian. This is, as you said, Alice, this is brutally competitive. It is the very antithesis of egalitarianism.”
The Prof G Pod · Feb 2026 · 1 episode · 38K views on this topicPositions are extracted from transcripts by a model and may misattribute who said what. Every quote links to the episode it came from.