As a civilization, China's not superior today. But it was superior then. Whenever a Chinese person gives you any guff about how they've got 5000 years of recorded history behind them, and you're not feeling polite, you can respond with the rejoinder that this is like a Rockefeller shaking a tin cup on a street corner boasting about how his forebears were big cheeses back in the day. It's kinda pathetic. Sic transit gloria mundi.
What is undeniable, however, is that the Chinese have higher IQ's. They do better in schools for the same reason Jews do - more innate processing power.
Why, then, is China so backward today, if the hardware is superior, or at least not inferior? Lousy software (i.e. Marxism-Leninism), combined with lousy nutrition through decades of famine and near-famine. Think North Korea vs South Korea. West Germany vs East Germany.
Interesting ideas/opinion.
“But it was superior then.”
Then was a loooong time ago.
And the bad software well predates the communist takeover.
LOL
Ever hear the term "Chinese Fire Drill"?
And Jews have some kind of souped up CPU in their brains that make them super human cyborgs?
Most Chinese and Jewish kids in America have good parents that encourage hard work , study, and encourage success.
These are cultural traits, not genetic.
Your list of countries by IQ does not account for socio-economic bias.
Compare the IQ of kids in Greenwich Ct or Los Alamos NM against the effin chinese and your study goes to hell in a hand basket.
The Chinese DO NOT have higher IQ's than Americans, just higher than Americans in gibsmedat communities that have a welfare mentality.