Reddit mentions of Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Dragon?: Why China Has the Best (and Worst) Education System in the World

I read in a book called 'Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Dragon' about China's awful education system that their government once offered quite substantial funding to a domestic academic/industrial team with the goal of having them develop the first entirely Chinese microprocessor, only for the team to invest all of their efforts into discovering a way to scrub the unique identifying features from Samsung chips to allow them to present the Samsung hardware as their own work.

When you say they aren't as good at fabricating things that is almost beside the point imo, the really intractable problem in China is that they continue to train generation after generation of kids to not think for themselves and pursue anything in life only insofar as it brings money/honour to themselves and their families. I don't think there is anyway China could stand on its own (in the next couple of decades, at least) and develop totally independent technology from the ground up.


Edit: The book link, and corrected the name in the text: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Whos-Afraid-Big-Bad-Dragon/dp/1118487133/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=the+big+bad+dragon&qid=1571266427&sr=8-1