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Are China’s universities really the best in the world?

by rustoo on 7/3/25, 10:29 AM with 10 comments

• by more_corn on 7/3/25, 2:16 PM

  Chinas universities exist under a repressive regime that disallows certain concepts, conclusions and speech. Such institutions can never be the best in the world because they have some areas of thought that are forbidden.

• by egberts1 on 7/3/25, 3:44 PM

  As of late, white papers out of Computer Science departments in China left me found wanting.

  No idea if it is a translator fail or something.

  I regularly read white papers.

• by UltraSane on 7/3/25, 2:32 PM

  Are you allowed to discuss how many people were killed by the CCP during the Tienanmen Square massacre?

• by esbranson on 7/3/25, 5:57 PM

  Good? The academy is about as close to Chinese socialism as it gets, one would think China would excel in such a environment. DEI statements or whatever the Party and its media organs are pushing in the US etc are no different than practices in China that are so thoroughly criticized. Inasmuch as China's academy is beneficial to humanity, good.