[yunohn]

> experts at reverse engineering and learning 'from context' rather than by formal consumption of foreign training material

China (as with other Asian cultures like India) is well known for their schooling involving extreme amounts of formal training material consumption. The reverse-engineering is performed with a solid foundation of theoretical understanding.

[ausbah]

everytime someone tries to split the hair on how China is pulling ahead on most important metrics reads like coping of the nth degree