Beijing and Shanghai once again rank in top five for high-quality research according to annual Nature Index, while nearly 30 other Chinese cities jump up the list, with up-and-comer Hefei beating London and Los Angeles and Guangzhou surpassing Paris.
I was hoping that as this happened, more and more people in the west would drop the “video game tech tree” understanding of science development. Unfortunately, they’ve just decided that China is “cheating” at science somehow instead.
As China keeps pulling ahead of the west technologically, the copes are getting more and more desperate.