Why does China's AI education strategy matter?

How a nation teaches AI today decides who leads the AI economy tomorrow. I read China's AI education push as a signal of long-term intent: AI lessons are mandatory in every Beijing school since September 2025, from age 6. AI literacy becomes as fundamental as reading, writing, and arithmetic. The countries that treat it that way compound an advantage for decades. The countries that debate it in committees import the talent later, at a premium. Everyone wants innovation. Nobody wants to change. China changed the curriculum.