China is a source of enormous scientific talent because they have a "weeding out" process starts early and continues up the line to produce a stream of highly qualified young technically educated people that is quite large compared to what comes out of US undergraduate programs.

The US problem is the lack of middle-class American kids willingness to endure the hard work and intense focus required for science and engineeing educations. The Asian countries produce very few non-technically educated students.

The USA has stopped creating most types of wealth and has elected to sell title to US real estate, farms, agri-businesses, food supplies, dairies, forests, industries, breweries, hotels, factories, casinos, financial institutions, retail businesses, and most other assets located in the USA in order to raise money to pay people in foreign countries to manufacture the things that US citizens consume without US citizens working and to pay US government expenses. My children and grandchildren can work hard and buy back these assets, while I sit idle and not have to work in some dirty factory making things that US citizens consume. We can also have a clean environment, if we close all of our factories and relocate the factories (and the jobs) to foreign countries.