Which is why the chinese have the best schools in the world right? And everyone wants to get into these excellent chinese institutes of higher education, right?
Your simplistic rhetorical questions are mostly ridiculous. China's universities are not in the Top 100 on earth for a variety of reasons (Communism, Mao's purge of the educated, their propensity for plagiarism, their centuries of poverty and authoritarianism, their culture of hyper-bureaucracy, etc etc etc)... None of those have anything to do with the simple and very clear fact that almost EVERY Chinese will do whatever they can, often for 16 hours per day for years at a time, to try to get into the best-available schools.
Oddly, most actually DO prefer Peking and Tsinghua Universities to foreign study... but I have to believe that this is mostly due to the expense of foreign study, the desire to not be THAT far from home, the Chinese preference for the Han culture, etc. If they don't get into Bei-da or Tsinghua (and only a few thousand of the million or so applicants every year can get in), they next look to the top universities on earth... and 26 of the top 34 are in the US (as well as 52 of the top 99). Begrudging them a chance at admission, simply for their race, is stupid and short-sighted.
Pretending that they usually don't focus on education FAR FAR more than US students because they don't have the top schools is also moronic.
But please, do go on.