What to make of that is it's a racist belief that Western people hide behind to convince themselves that sure, Chinese people might be smarter, but it's a rote-

What to make of that is it's a racist belief that Western people hide behind to convince themselves that sure, Chinese people might be smarter, but it's a rote-memorization non-creative type of intelligence and China will never be a leader. They're wrong, and they'll be blindsided by their own racist underestimation.