NKRI nomor berapa? On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 5:02 PM, Jonathan Goeij jonathango...@yahoo.com [GELORA45] <GELORA45@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
> > > Kelihatannya benar sekali, dalam kategori engineering Tsinghua menempati > posisi pertama disusul MIT kedua dan UC Berkeley ketiga. Bahkan dalam > daftar 10 besar engineering Tiongkok dan Amerika keduanya masing2 > menempatkan 4 university dan Singapore 2 university. > > Dalam sejarah memang banyak penemuan engineering diawali di Tiongkok > terutama pada pembangunan Tembok Besar seperti roda pedati, katrol, dll. > Tentu masuk akal kalau sekarang kemajuan engineering kembali ke Tiongkok, > dan bukan hanya dalam pendidikan saja tetapi juga dalam penemuan2 baru. > Angkat topi! > > Kapan Indonesia menyusul? Yg jelas waktu searching Indonesia hasil yg > didapat "Not Matches Found" dalam semua kategori. > > > ---In GELORA45@yahoogroups.com, <ehhlin@...> wrote : > > > > > GRAHAM ALLISON > America second? Yes, and China’s lead is only growing > China’s Tsinghua University dethroned MIT (above) as the top engineering > university in the world in 2015, according to US News and World Report’s > annual rankings. > By Graham Allison > May 22, 2017 > In Boston, Commencement season is a time to celebrate our world-leading > universities, including engineering powerhouse MIT. But Bostonians might be > shocked to learn that China’s Tsinghua University dethroned MIT as the top > engineering university in the world in 2015, according to the > closely-watched US News & World Report annual rankings. Tsinghua’s recent > surge is not an isolated example. Everyone knows about China’s rise, but > few have realized its magnitude or its consequences. > Among the top 10 schools of engineering, China and the United States now > each have four. In STEM subjects (science, technology, engineering, and > mathematics), which provide the core competencies driving advances in the > fastest-growing sectors of modern economies, China annually graduates four > times as many students as the United States (1.3 million vs. 300,000). And > in every year of the Obama administration, Chinese universities awarded > more PhDs in STEM fields than American universities. > For Americans who grew up in a world in which USA meant “number one,” the > idea that China could truly challenge the United States as a global > educational leader seems impossible to imagine. > This is not the only reality Americans willfully ignore. In my national > security course at Harvard, the lecture on China begins with a quiz. > Students get a sheet with 25 indicators of economic performance. Their task > is to estimate when China might overtake the United States as the top > producer or market of automobiles, supercomputers, smartphones, and so on. > Most are stunned to learn that China has already surpassed the United > States on each of these metrics. > I then ask whether they believe that in their lifetime China will overtake > the United States to become the largest economy in the world. In last > year’s class of 60 students, about half bet they would live to see the > United States become number two, while half disagreed. > When I show the class headlines from the 2014 IMF-World Bank meeting > announcing that China had become the largest economy in the world, students > react with a mix of dismay and disbelief. By 2016, China’s GDP was $21 > trillion and America’s was $18.5 trillion, when measured by purchasing > power parity (PPP), which both the CIA and IMF agree is the best yardstick > for comparing national economies. > Students are not the only ones in the dark about China’s rise. Most of the > press has similarly missed the big picture. The favorite story line in the > Western media about the Chinese economy is “slowdown.” The question few > pause to ask is: slowing compared to whom? The American press’s favorite > adjective to describe our economic performance has been “recovering.” But > despite its “slowdown,” China today is growing three times as fast as the > United States. > President Trump’s claims that we have been “losing” to China reflect, in > part, the reality of a shifting see-saw. A bigger, stronger China is > challenging American interests in the South China Sea, taking our jobs, > buying American companies, and replacing us as the primary trading partner > of nations not only in its neighborhood, but also in Europe, where China > recently unseated the United States as Germany’s largest trading partner. > Trump’s call to “Make America Great Again” struck a chord with voters. > Number one is who we are. But politically appealing slogans are not a > solution for the dramatic resurgence of a 5,000-year old civilization with > 1.4 billion people, led by a president whose own mission is the “Great > Rejuvenation” of China — in other words, to “Make China Great Again.” To > construct a grand strategy for the China challenge that protects vital US > interests without catastrophic conflict, policy makers must begin by > recognizing these uncomfortable but undeniable realities. > Graham Allison is the director of Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center > for Science and International Affairs and the author of the forthcoming > book “Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap?” > > >
