The recent rhetoric of NYTimes around a Trump-administration related issue is always like 'Why A would actually become not-A'. A professor in physics dept. in

The recent rhetoric of NYTimes around a Trump-administration related issue is always like 'Why A would actually become not-A'. A professor in physics dept. in University of Science and Technology of China at Hefei has complained that he could not find any student able to solve problems in textbooks, e.g. condensed matter physics, for years. Demography together with education reforms favoring liberal arts has destroyed tomorrow's engineers in China. Salary gaps from IT and financial sectors prohibited talents from entering traditional industries. Investment into the new tech surely helps but is not likely to completely overcome existing shortcomings in traditional materials and manufacturing industry in China.