[michaelt]

> We know exactly how China is winning.

An anti-intellectual campaign in the late 1960s [1] that eliminated almost all university education, except for in engineering (as engineering served the Great Leap Forward's goal of increasing agricultural and industrial production) ? Combined with a deliberate purge of the previous ruling class?

Thus creating the conditions for the country to be led by Jiang Zemin (electrical engineering, National Chiao Tung University) then by Hu Jintao (hydropower engineering, Tsinghua University) then by Xi Jinping (chemical engineering, Tsinghua University) ?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stinking_Old_Ninth

[lotsofpulp]

Anti-liberal arts campaign seems like a more apt label. Or Pro STEM.

[throwaway48476]

It's not just the leaders. The CCP is almost all engineers.