US media: Although some global university rankings show that Chinese universities perform outstandingly in research output, even surpassing top American institutions such as Harvard, these rankings cannot truly reflect academic quality.
Chinese universities once encouraged the publication of papers through cash rewards to improve their rankings, leading to a large number of papers with varying quality, and even cases of academic fraud and paper writing by others. Although China has banned this practice, the pressure to publish excessively still exists, and the rate of paper retractions is much higher than in the United States.
American universities still have an advantage in attracting top talent, but the U.S. government's immigration policies and cuts in research funding may weaken this advantage. The biggest threat to the global status of American universities comes from Washington, not Beijing.
Original article: toutiao.com/article/1856844541088007/
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