The US strategy is unlikely to succeed, as experts agree that if the country wants to maintain its leading position – and make the most of the research of China's talented scientists – it would do well to focus less on suppressing Chinese science and more on developing itself. .
In recent decades, as China has joined the global economy, China's rapid catch-up and misuse of Western intellectual property has often made it a copycat and thief rather than an innovator, while the country's science has been disparaged in the West, in part because it has encouraged its researchers to produce Large amounts of low-quality academic work.
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However, these times have passed, as in 2024 China has clearly become one of the world's leading scientific powers. The research conducted here is among the world's elite, especially in the fields of chemistry, physics and materials science. the According to the Economist article Chinese researchers publish more articles in prestigious journals than their American and European counterparts, and produce more work that is highly cited elsewhere. Tsinghua and Zhejiang Universities both conduct as much cutting-edge research as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
