What top Chinese and U.S. universities share

Recent analyses of the financial resources and trends in funding China's top universities indicates that China and the U.S. share many commonalities. Both the sources of funding and size of institutional budgets are generally in line with each other. The question is if China's aspiration to overtake U.S. and other western countries in higher education outcomes are realistic if the comparative circumstances of its institutions are roughly parallel. Perhaps the claim that Chinese superiority is eminent is overestimated.