China values STEM graduates, America values financial conmen and cheats and unproductive lawyers

Chinese leaders think differently from Western leaders. They are all encompassing in their strategy, which is how they managed to control so much of the raw materials in South American and African countries, the global market for its products and what is necessary to keep China ahead in terms of an educated workforce.
China did not just start out to control the flow of raw materials like rare earth to China. China had also to build up its industrial base to cater to them and over the decades this is exactly what happened. Now, more than that, China had to change its education system to produce more scientists and engineers to helm those industries.

While the World's University Rankings were all preoccupied with citing just research papers written in English, while ignoring those written in Chinese, by Chinese researchers and academics in top Chinese Universities, it has now been discovered that there was a treasure trove of high valued papers that have gone under the radar in compiling the ranking of top universities, especially in science and engineering. This became apparent when China started dominating in high-speed-rails, EVs, batteries, infrastructure building like bridges and dams and shipbuilding. How could China be doing all that without having a closer look at all the research papers that they were publishing in Chinese that have long been ignored by the West. But it is too little too late to stop the horses from bolting after letting the stable doors open for China to step into the competition.

The USA is now trying to correct its mistake of taking its eyes off China and concentrating on forever wars and fighting terrorism. Thirty years of much ado about nothing allowed China the time factor to catch up in many sectors. Now, in terms of patents filed, China is way ahead of the USA in many sectors. The USA is trying to scrap the bottom of the barrel for raw materials that had long been cornered by China in South America and Africa. China has set up a manufacturing and industrial chain that not even the USA can ever manage to catch up and now using overcapacity against China to cripple it. China had already set up an education system well-tailored for its continuity as factory of the world. How long will it take Trump to bring all these to fruition to counter China? China has even cornered the market in the Global South that the USA and EU has no way of competing against.


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