China Has 55% of the High-IQ Working-Age People

I think you are conflating relative meritocracy where the USA is better than some of the worst meritocracies from absolute meritocracy where IQ alone will help you succeed. There are tons of research articles (https://harvardlawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/myth...) on the subject.

Some of the high IQ individuals are succeeding in USA but definitely not even close to all of them.

I get what you are saying but this is still pretty local.

They have territorial disputes with their neighbors, that’s not the same as trying to project their cultural values globally.

What dispute do they have with Pakistan? You mean India?

Don't forget most of Africa, where it's a lot of "Oh, so sorry you got in massive debt to us for that clean water system. You know, a nice Chinese naval base would look great right over there."

Vietnam?

The CIA was operating for a long time in Tibet and got the Dalai Lama kicked out. Taiwan wouldn't even exist if it weren't backed by forgeign powers, namely the US and UK. The US dropped 2.7 million tons of bombs on Cambodia. The US has conducted thousands of drone strikes in Pakistan, and of course, they fought a war in Korea.

^ that, and they probably don't value IP rights as much as the western world. I might be wrong but I have the impression they view it as a hindrance.

Any chinese here that can share their view?

> and they don't bother to translate it for our benefit.

There are organizations aside from the Chinese government that speak Chinese and could translate into other languages. I'm thinking specifically of any news reporting organization.

> They also have different values

They also span five different time zones. The values are no more consistent in their society then it is in any other.

That's not the problem you keep hearing about. China is incredibly unequal. The education program is aimed at test taking because the only way to do anything is to first climb the ladder in the communist party. How do you get into the lowest rung of the communist party? How do you start climbing the ladder?

Well, a test, the "Gaokao". There's your explanation. You need to know math, and of course exactly how Xi Jingping (and the CCP) is a god and the solution to all the worlds problems (there's 3 volumes about it which you have to know by hard: "习近平谈治国理政")

Looks like (three of) this book: https://www.amazon.com/Xi-Jinping-Governance-Simplified-Chin...

If anything, Chinese people outside of China show that their education aimed at test taking works damn well. China doesn't let them out anymore, but it's not lack of ability.

One aspect of China and so many countries outside of the west is just how unequal they are that people keep forgetting. Yes China is communist, at the very least in name. It is also incredibly unequal.

So there are rich kids in China. And while inequality means per-capita less rich kids, but they tend to be much richer than a US rich kid, and China is easily 5 times bigger, so ... no shortage of very rich kids. And yes, some of them are smart.

https://www.instagram.com/richkidsofchina/

So no, it is not that there are no smart kids with resources in China. In fact quite the opposite.

Perhaps it's like most countries outside of the west. I've seen this play out several times with Iranians. It's the environment, the government, the ideology. Iranians, the ones that managed to maintain some wealth, know what they're doing. They're pretty smart. A bunch of them go back every few years. In Iran, they don't achieve much. Outside of Iran, they achieve a lot. The same people. At least there resources would be a better explanation, but that's not it. In reality the Iranian state will brutally stamp out any public display of culture (because Iranian culture is anything but islamic. In fact, don't even call it Iranian. It's Persian). So what's left is Persians outside of Iran and drug parties.

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yikes yeah thats pretty bad