It seems to me that: 1. Chinese researchers are catching up and increasingly producing good papers. and: 2. There is a lot of low-quality junk science spam c

It seems to me that: 1. Chinese researchers are catching up and increasingly producing good papers. and: 2. There is a lot of low-quality junk science spam coming out of China. Are entirely compatible. Both can be true at the same time. I don't really know about scientific papers, but the high number of Chinese patents is generally considered a fairly useless metric files mostly for "CV reasons" rather than representing any genuine invention (see e.g. [1]). But here too, "China is producing tons of trash patents" and "China is catching up on innovation" are entirely compatible. [1]: https://www.cigionline.org/articles/what-do-chinas-high-patent-numbers-really-mean/ https://www.cigionline.org/articles/what-do-chinas-high-pate...