Also since COVID when students were able to claim consideration be taken for getting Covid, or related disruption to exams, the number of claims has gone through the roof.
It is no wonder that resistance is developing quickly
You seem to be making two incorrect assumptions
1. It costs the same to educate a student in China as it does in the USA, not the case, the profit driven school system in the USA results in significantly higher costs than those in China.
That I am blaming Trump. Also incorrect, the US education system has created a population where the majority are incapable of critical thinking and rational decision making, hence why someone like Trump could ever get elected. This would not happen in most other developed democracies.
One of these nations is growing and gaining influence globally, the other elected an orange clown as it’s president and is the butt of jokes the world over.
There is never time to do it right, but always time to do it over.