What you are speaking is utter garbage. Many products are "assembled in China", not made in China. If you think carefully it is very difficult to fault what I wrote.
A Chinese student told me that I Pads are made in China: BS, they are ASSEMBLED in China! Putting a man in space is no big deal in 2013. As for most countries in the West not doing it, well maybe they DON'T WANT TO WASTE THE MONEY! Tell me how puting a man in orbit around the Earth achieves anything? It is not like a Moon landing, sending a probe to Mars ( or Jupiter or Saturn ) There is no scientific value in such an event, it is purely for prestige, and maybe propaganda purposes in a communist nation. The Chinese should not be wasting money on space travel ( or the USA ) or even considering it. There are far more important priorities in China.

Once again, Chinese education is rubbish, I will keep saying it over and over. Like another poster said, it is based on rote learning, TOTALLY USELESS. Your statement about Chinese students is also nonsense: Many learn English for 9 or 10 years, and their English is still very poor. In constrast, Western people can be become fluent in Putonghua in one to two years. Now, why do you think that is the case? Chinese is not as "hard" to learn as people think.

The Western education system is superior to the Chinese one, and also Western thinking. End of the story.