Well, that’s conflating the raw resource of IQ with the economic, informal, and

Well, that’s conflating the raw resource of IQ with the economic, informal, and formal institutional institutions to enable it. That said there are still so many engineers in china today that the west cannot compete … just in tool and die making.
China might (probably will) collapse, but all that means is that the CCP will lose control, and regional states will pick up the opportunity, and stop the direction of capital to the military and return to the direction of capital to the condition of the people – most of whom remain desperately poor.
The real reason for chinese decline is Xi’s aggression. The whole world was behind china as a peaceful polity seeking a better future for the people.

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