>>14286271>New 5 year plan to increase basic science funding in china could lead to more breakthroughs in natural sciences but also more Chinese Nobel laureate.More money won't solve the fraudulent practices in Chinese academia including faking and making up numbers and studies. It also won't solve the general lack of creativity that is characteristic for the Chinese, the low-trust Chinese society and the technocratic authoritarianism that will ultimately guide so much of Chinese research. Chinese academia will have to adhere to the pseudophilosophic ideas of Maoism and Xi Jinping thought, which includes principles such as "common prosperity", "socialism with chinese characteristics" and "the one-party model". That is, Chinese science, in principle not unlike American academia, will ultimately solely serve the interests of the Chinese party which is separate and superior to the Chinese state and thus abide by arbitrary ideological standards that has legitimized and brought you such things as Falun Gong organ harvesting, concentration camps for the Uyghurs, labor camps, a completely centralized mass surveillance (the US one is a joke compared to what Xi Jinping has in mind), an extremely aggressive secret intelligence service, millions of forced sterilizations and abortions, regular famines (still to this date, China is among the countries with the worst food security), apartheid (systemic discrimination against the rural population) etc.
>but also more Chinese Nobel laureate Given that the Nobel prize is a clearly political tool that has surprisingly little to do with how relevant or difficult the research is, I think that 1. it is not a good measurement of the value of scientific output, 2. the Chinese will only care about it insofar as they can weaponize the Nobel prize and turn it into a tool against the west, 3. considering the ethnic nepotism involved in the Nobel committee that favors jews and disfavor Chinese, there won't be any Chinese laureates to come.
