Unless they’ve gotten a lot better in the past decade I’m not missing a bunch. But yes in terms of sheer quantity of graduates and and research papers China wi

Unless they’ve gotten a lot better in the past decade I’m not missing a bunch. But yes in terms of sheer quantity of graduates and and research papers China wins out but what matters is the quality. The US has problems with lousy and even outright false papers but in China it’s endemic. And to your point, the reason people come to the US from Peking or Tsinghua to do their pHd or postdoc is because of the high quality research, which is why cutting it is so detrimental