tom freeman is here and we were talking about that very issue which is in china they are still controllinghe free flow of information. you look at voice of america, all of our international broadcasts they try to block it. a place like india even though the infrastructure is not very good they are very comfortable with a vibrant media, very comfortable with democracy. in the end, in the information age it's going to be hard. i rather bet on a country like india where every kid in bangladesh is trying to invent the internet. >> so india has a lead over china. >> absolutely. is america in decline? my answer is no. we actually are the best still and will be at creative thinking and connecting to it technology. who is inventing google, facebook, who is invengt twitter. even if it's immigrants coming in, google as an immigrant, this is a country in which we have and we celebrate the free flow of information, the free flow of ideas, creativity. in china, it's hard for them to be creative in the information and and that will be the comparative advantage of the united states. >> a huge important p

tom freeman is here and we were talking about that very issue which is in china they are still controllingormation. you look at voice of america, all of our international broadcasts they try to block it. a place like india even though the infrastructure is not very good they are very comfortable with a vibrant media, very comfortable with democracy. in the end, in the information age it's going to be hard. i rather bet on a country like india where every kid in bangladesh is trying to invent the internet. >> so india has a lead over china. >> absolutely. is america in decline? my answer is no. we actually are the best still and will be at creative thinking and connecting to it technology. who is inventing google, facebook, who is invengt twitter. even if it's immigrants coming in, google as an immigrant, this is a country in which we have and we celebrate the free flow of information, the free flow of ideas, creativity. in china, it's hard for them to be creative in the information and and that will be the comparative advantage of the united states. >> a huge important point. there was a p

our a mating -- amazing writer from the new york times, tom freeman is going to talk about advancing america's competitiveness. there is no question that we have challenges. our u.s. teenagers frank 20 bitmap across the will world, 14th and reading. this movement is not confined to our k-12 education. the u.s. has fallen from first to 12th in the number of americans that complete post secondary degrees. for the first time in history, the u.s. is faced with a generation of young adult that is projected to have a lower educational attainment than their parents. it comes as no surprise that only 44% of americans believe is likely that today's youth will have a better life and the parents, the lowest rate since the poll began in 1983. we have open the doors to higher education for millions of americans. i think our higher education system is second to none, but too few of our students who began higher education ultimately obtain a degree, and too few of them lead to a good paying job and rear. without war student completing a higher degrees, our ability to out innovate and out produce ot