China pulls far ahead of India in turning PhDs into domestic science
China and India, Asia's two largest producers of US-trained STEM PhDs, have diverged sharply in translating that talent into domestic scientific output, with China now producing several times more world-class research despite both nations training re
September 10, 2026 (MLN): China and India, Asia's two largest producers of US-trained STEM PhDs, have diverged sharply in translating that talent into domestic scientific output, with China now producing several times more world-class research despite both nations training researchers of comparable quality abroad. The comparison was drawn by Atif Mian in a LinkedIn post, who argued that incorporating science into a...