> why isn't china producting any breakthrough science? china like other certain countries center their educational system and schools around teaching via memorization, as opposed to teaching via conceptual understanding. in room-temp iq speak : china teaches their students to learn shit through memory and not actually understanding concepts. this is why china sucks at scientific innovation. they've been catching up in the past few decades, but that's mostly due to the fact that they have an economic system designed around promising cheap labor as a bait, and then steal your industrial innovations and advances in technology when you eventually build a factory there. in fact, chinks are known to create an exact copy of your factory in another location a few miles away from your own factory. they steal everything, from the layout of the place, the industrial processes, technologies, the way the management runs shit and so on. and when you complain that they stole all your shit, created an exact copy of your factory that is not undercutting your prices because they have no r&d or marketing an such you get a "fuck white man" response. the ccp, the chinese governement encourages not only stealing tech but also fucking over foreigners. if you don't believe me, read this collection of posts from that anon that had to manage import-export for a steel company, and had to regularly buy shit from them and deal with their bullshittery.  
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