Perhaps in prehistory, during a time no one remembers. Chinese thinkers of 2300 years ago do not compare favorably against the Greeks of that time.
Actually, they were brilliant, which is how China's rulers built an empire that quintupled in size, had the most densely-populated territory on marginal land in antiquity, thanks to advanced agricultural techniques, and is pretty close to its largest territorial extent today while absorbing large numbers of aborigines, who now think of themselves as Chinese the way Arvanites see themselves as Greek. Whereas Greece fell under Roman domination mere centuries after its heyday. Chinese thinkers focused on statecraft and engineering. Greek thinkers focused on the abstract. Machiavelli's The Prince merely restated principles developed by Chinese thinkers 2000 years before him. If a Greek Machiavelli had enumerated the basic principles of statecraft during Greece's heyday, all of Europe, Persia, North Africa and Central Asia would be Greek-speakers today, thanks to Alexander's efforts. Instead, Greece was overrun repeatedly by hordes of foreigners, and the largest population of Greeks in the world, genetically-speaking, is in Turkey (Anatolia), except these Greeks speak, and identify as, Turkish.