Seriously I'm all for criticizing USA since they're onto a weird path and the glow of the 20th century is starting to fade. But after reading 60% of the article, I didn't even bother finishing it. It's such a sad bag of tricks to get money on publication for no reason that it casts doubts on everything China's research is outputing. Not long ago I read some medical papers about cancer for real purpose, I now wonder if I was fooled by some bad claims..

My POV about China, there are two points:

- a history of low grade copy: this is not how you discover or get attention/credibility

- a booming growth: as the article says, they "want" to become a science leading country, but you can't rush it, skipping steps now may cause implosion later on (as the amount of paper retraction shows).

Other than that, nobody says China or any country cannot do science, but it needs proper dedication to the method and patience...