Writing off Chinese science as a "paper mill" is incredibly ignorant. These days, China is among the top contributors (solidly in the same league as the US and

Writing off Chinese science as a "paper mill" is incredibly ignorant. These days, China is among the top contributors (solidly in the same league as the US and EU) to scientific research. The simplest metric to judge the overall amount of quality research output is to look at the number of papers accepted into top journals like Nature, which are anything but a paper mills. China already leads by that metric: https://www.nature.com/nature-index/country-outputs/generate/all/global https://www.nature.com/nature-index/country-outputs/generate....