[yding]

This is just wrong. By many measures, China is one of the most innovative countries on earth. Take scientific citations for example: https://www.natureindex.com/news-blog/chinas-citations-catch...

[mellow-lake-day]

How much of those are legitimate though? There have been cases of fraud and falsifying information.

"Since 2012, the country has retracted more scientific papers because of faked peer reviews than all other countries and territories put together,..."

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/13/world/asia/china-science-...

[Leary]

Given that the Nature Index only measures top quality publications, China's contribution to science is second only to the US's.

https://www.natureindex.com/annual-tables/2018/country/all

[Permit]

Scientific citations seem like a very poor metric for a country that is plagued by scientific fraud.

[megaremote]

Do you have any other benchmark apart from citations?

[Leary]

Bloomberg Innovation index: https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/3hi4O/2/?abcnewsembedheight=55... China is 16, ahead of the UK and Canada

Global Innovation Index: https://www.globalinnovationindex.org/gii-2018-report China is 17