The best quote that I heard regarditng this is that in China Bill Gates is Britney Spears, in America Britney Spears is Britney Spears, and that is the problem.
Thing is Chinese kids grow up in a culture that stresses matehmatics and sciences so much more. We lag behind really, really bad, so the thing is like our previous cultural strength of teaching innovation and creativity that fostered so much ingenuity, doesn't work anymore as well in electronics or engineering cause we don't understand the basics. U gotta understand the fundamentals in order to move past them.
Its predicted that in 10 years China and India will be neck and neck with the United States due to our lack of science and mathematics education in technology. I mean can U imagine what would happen to our IT technology if we did not allow Indians into the United States.
Yeah, better brush up on your Mandarin right now.