According to the following article, it is. This article stresses the importance role of the policy makers in the Hill to shape the American education, but the author may not think they have done enough. The magnitude of the risk is even greater today compared to decades ago. The ordinary citizens in the US have noticed that many product sold at the groceries stores were made from other countries. The import substitution, free-trade and competitive advantages ideas are so popular decades ago, and now it is fair to evaluate, if this policy makes the US better-off. One cannot deny that the US has benefitted by adopting such trade policy, at least in the short-run. However, what is the side effects of such a policy. One thing for sure in that the exporting countries who have the labor or wage comparative advantage against the US became the most important US trading partners (competitors in the long-run). While other countries in Asia has benefitted from free-trade, China becomes a country that has benefitted most. Parallel with its economic growth, this country is becoming competitor in many fronts and therefore change the geo-politics balance in the world. It started to expand it territorial if necessary through force. Therefore, make a claim, and created border dispute with its neighboring countries. Noticeably in the South China sea. What makes China’s ability to make the leap? Education is one of the factors, plus its philosophy or belief that China is the center of the world. “It implies, first, an ethnic Han polity, which is inherently authoritarian. Second, it requires that a single powerful monarch, the Chinese emperor (“Son of Heaven”) should rule the entire civilized world — which by definition should be unified under the emperor’s control so that disorder and chaos may be avoided, and reason and just rule may triumph” quoted from The Diplomat (https://thediplomat.com/2018/10/the-world-according-to-china/)