China’s education system also suppresses innovation while rewarding imitation. Although some Chinese schools conduct innovative experimental education, they remain few and have little impact.From childhood to adulthood, Chinese students are subjected to rote learning—memorizing and obeying rather than questioning or thinking independently. Thus, while Chinese students and researchers excel at replication and refinement of existing work, they are poor at true creativity.
probably for the same reason Kissinger got the Nobel Prize
The Nobel Peace (of mind for westerners that the third world is kept subjugated) Prize.
at least then they had the sense to also give it to Lê Đức Thọ but he declined it for obvious and based reasons.