I doubt it

  Usually the Chinese have a much more superior educational system from high school to university level. I can't say much for their liberal arts since there is no real clear ruler to measure this by. However, in most international meets between Chinese university students versus those coming from other states, Chinese tend to come in at number one.

ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest World Finals

Place	Name	Solved	Time	Last Problem
1	Shanghai Jiaotong University	7	778	229
2	Moscow State University	7	940	263
3	National Taiwan University	6	779	201
4	Taras Shevchenko Kiev National University	6	928	238
5	Petrozavodsk State University	6	985	284
6	Tsinghua University	6	998	261
7	Saratov State University	6	1010	297
8	University of Warsaw	6	1042	263
9	St. Petersburg State University	6	1042	277
10	Zhongshan (Sun Yat-sen) University	6	1049	272
11	Fudan University	6	1114	294
12	KTH - Royal Institute of Technology	6	1265	288
13	Ural State University	6	1312	268
14	Stanford University	5	377	128
14	Cornell University	5	560	160
14	University of Tokyo	5	598	207
14	Carnegie Mellon University	5	782	192
14	University of British Columbia	5	819	196
14	Seoul National University	5	824	206
14	Belarusian State University	5	850	280
14	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	5	851	209
14	St. Petersburg State University of IT, Mechanics and Optics	5	860	269

◄ 51^th IMO 2010 ►

Country results • Individual results • Statistics

Country	Team size			P1	P2	P3	P4	P5	P6	Total	Rank	Awards
	All	M	F									G	S	B	HM
People's Republic of China	6	5	1	41	42	23	42	24	25	197	1	6	0	0	0
Russian Federation	6	6		41	35	11	42	20	20	169	2	4	2	0	0
United States of America	6	6		40	42	8	42	24	12	168	3	3	3	0	0
Republic of Korea	6	6		42	42	24	42	0	6	156	4	4	2	0	0
Kazakhstan	6	6		42	35	13	42	4	12	148	5	3	2	0	1
Thailand	6	6		42	42	16	42	5	1	148	5	1	5	0	0
Japan	6	6		41	29	15	42	6	8	141	7	2	3	0	1
Turkey	6	6		40	36	13	42	7	1	139	8	1	3	2	0
Germany	6	5	1	39	31	9	42	5	12	138	9	1	3	2	0
Serbia	6	6		39	31	7	42	9	7	135	10	1	3	2	0

 41st International Physics Olympiad

Zagreb 17-25 July 2010

Gold medals

Yichao Yu	China
Jundong Wu	China
Fabian Gundlach	Germany
Daniel Li	United States of America
Isarapong Eksinchol	Thailand
Sergei Patiakin	United Kingdom