I've read enough Usenet for enough years to suspect that STEM may well be a liability when it comes to "soft" subjects, the sort that politics operates on. Just the realities of government finance and government debt seem to be beyond many in our field(s), because it's a bizarro subject.
That China is run by nominally "engineers" could well be a significant problem for them.
That China is run by nominally "engineers" could well be a significant problem for them.