Nature reports China has "overtaken the United States as the number one ranked country or territory for contributions to research articles published in the Nature Index group of high-quality natural-science journals", remaining at second place overall.[365]
Damn. I wonder if there's been any recent calls in the United States that would make higher education more accessible, which would allow for more scientific papers to be published. No? No calls for any of that? Oh well
I derive morbid satisfaction from the fact that the US is such a fucking asshole country that it's making itself the loser against China.
It is the natural tendency of capitalism to keep posting its Ls