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I dont think money spent on science is necessarily a bad metric for quantifying how much a government is prioritizing science. I do agree that more money spent on science != better science. I know from my own experience in geology that there are some things that China does well and a lot that they are really behind on and there's a lot of sub-par science that comes out of China. Does that matter when science is just a numbers game in the modern context? I couldn't say
The Clinton era proved just spending more does not equal better science.
What are you referring to? Im not American and Clinton was before my time
Clinton doubled the NIH budget in his tenure and even moved DARPA money into biomedical research. >$20B a year more spending, but it did not translate to more success in diseases research.