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Matthew Yglesias is a fellow at the Center for American Progress. His first book, with the working title Heads in the Sand: Iraq and the Strange Death of Liberal Internationalism, scheduled to be published next spring by John Wiley and co., deals with the Democratic Party's struggle to find a post-9/11 foreign policy, focusing primarily on the rise and (hopefully) fall of the liberal hawk movement.

Previously, he was a staff writer at The American Prospect and an Associate Editor at TPM Media, where he contributed to the group blogs Tapped and TPMCafe. His main blog, now at The Atlantic, has existed in various forms since the dark ages of the blogosphere in January 2002.

His writing has appeared in The Guardian, Slate, The New Republic, and The Washington Monthly, and he is a regular on BloggingHeads.tv and makes the occasional radio or television appearance.

Desperately out of touch with the American mainstream, Yglesias was born and raised in Manhattan and studied philosophy at Harvard where he was editor in chief of The Harvard Independent, a campus alternative weekly.

His latest writings can be found on the Matthew Yglesias blog.

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China Education

By Matthew Yglesias

May 29 2008, 11:57 AM ET Comment

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[Matt]

Alex Tabarrok posts this chart of burgeoning educational attainment in China, and says that though "Many people worry about what the Chinese education explosion means for the United States but I am optimistic." I agree. In fact, if anything the thing to worry about is that these kind of statistics are too optimistic about what's taking place in China -- oftentimes you'll hear a claim about some Asian country producing ninety trillion new engineers a year and it turns out that they're just counting every repairman as an engineer.

That said, the underlying point is that a better-educated, more-prosperous China is something Americans should welcome. Not only is it good for Chinese people (hardly a small thing) but it's good for Americans, too.

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