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By Bruno COLMANT, Ph.D., Member of the Royal Academy of Belgium
There are visible infrastructures: ports, roads, bridges, dams, power plants, railways, satellites, and data centers. They give a nation its material skeleton. But there are also invisible infrastructures, more decisive still because they determine the use, maintenance, and invention of all the others: education, health, intellectual discipline, attention, memory, abstraction, and scientific culture. China seems to have understood something the West is in danger of forgetting: the power of a nation is not measured only in tons of steel, kilometers of railway, military budgets, or semiconductor factories. It is also measured in trained minds.
The word IQ must, of course, be...
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