Don't fall for that BS. Chinese and all those other Asians like to stunt like they're smarter and more educated, but when you adjust for income of the parents they perform like everyone else. The kids we tend to see doing well are the children of the super rich that have the money to send their kids to the US to get educated. They're not super students. In fact, I can tell you anecdotally Chinese students aren't viewed in a good light anymore because of how much academic cheating and fraud there is in their culture. Some recent news stories about it online, too lazy to post links.
I used to think they were super students too until I started having classes with some of them