East Asian Exams - The Arms Race: sources banked, title approved

On 2026-09-14 the owner read an analysis of the YouTube video Why Education is Destroying East Asia, by the economics channel The Invisible Hand (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPe7tbysc2g). His reply, verbatim: “ok agree. bank the video. i like the title. “East Asian Exams - The Arms Race"".

We read “agree” as agreement with the analysis’s first step, which banks the related videos with the video. 42 transcripts went into the research bank’s politics lane that day. They are the video, two more videos from The Invisible Hand (one on South Korea, one on the graduate job market), and 39 YouTube Shorts from Sam’s POV (@sszuchan), the channel the video credits. Three more videos were read and left out because they are not about exams.

The owner approved the title East Asian Exams - The Arms Race for a new page in Worldviews & the Political Order. The page is being written with Explain First, so the subject is explained to him in the chat before any page text exists.

The analysis, with the list of numbers that disagree across the videos, is /Users/n1/Research/east-asia-education/ANALYSIS.md.