It is not an attack on a race of people. There is an SCMP article on the problematic atmosphere of cheating in Chinese schools [1], and dozens by Chinese contributors to large, mainstream publications.
I'm not sure how race comes into it. We are talking about a single country, not a race. The original commenter even mentioned Japan and Korea as examples of countries that are different from China in this regard.
Not only the comment is about a particular nation of people, "race" is essentially an Americanism at this point, and it's tiring to see attempts at coerce everything into a "race" problem.
What does race have to do with any of this? I'm discussing their government's economic and academic model. That's like saying criticism of America's healthcare system is racist against whites, because that's their majority ethnic group.
If anything, it says a lot about you that you associated everything I said with their ethnicity rather than the government itself.
The idea of Chinese companies/universities/etc. being uncreative and over-reliant on imitation and industrial espionage is quite obviously a somewhat tired cliché. I'm certain it makes an appearance in almost every single front page comment threat on the Chinese economy of the last five years or so.
There might even be a kernel of truth. But, as others have pointed out, the same was said of Japan and Taiwan before. In such a situation, you should be wary of repeating such stereotypes if you don't have first-hand experience, which I doubt many of those regurgitating that trope have.
China has 56 ethnic groups. When you say something bad about China, you're talking about the nation. So if you want to play a card, it's either the nationalism or xenophobia card, but not the race card.
