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China has a "stunning lead" over the US:
The Biden administration might be limiting China's ability to manufacture advanced chips, but according to an independent think tank, the Asian nation is still ahead of the US when it comes to research in 37 out of 44 crucial and emerging technologies, including AI, defense, and key quantum tech areas.
Insider reports that the Canberra-based Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) believes China has a "stunning lead" over the US when it comes to high-impact research across the majority of critical and emerging technology domains.
[...] The think tank notes that for some of these technologies, the ten leading research institutions are based in China and are collectively generating nine times more high-impact research papers than the second-ranked country, which is usually the US. What could be especially worrying for America is that two areas where China really excels are Defense and space-related technologies. ASPI writes that China's advancements in nuclear-capable hypersonic missiles took the US by surprise in 2021.
How is China so far ahead? Some of it is down to imported talent. The report notes that one-fifth of its high-impact papers are being authored by researchers with postgraduate training in a Five-Eyes country (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States). However, most of China's progress comes from deliberate design and long-term policy planning by President Xi Jinping and his predecessors.
The near-term effects of China's lead could see it gaining a stranglehold on the global supply of certain critical technologies, while the long-term impact could result in the authoritarian state gaining more global influence and power.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 05, @11:40PM (3 children)
lol how does long term planning work out long term? it's as if there is no correlation between the plan and what happens... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five-year_plans_of_China [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 3, Insightful) by MIRV888 on Monday March 06, @10:57AM (2 children)
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Long term planning is how anything of consequence gets done in the modern world.
This would include nuclear reactors, aircraft carriers, new production lines, civilian space vehicles, modern mines, Three Gorges Dam, and so on.
At the end of the day, long term planning and triple our population will win. There's nothing maybe about it.
Sadly a authoritarian one-party political system will defeat us, because we as a democratic republic cannot cooperate / negotiate internally.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 07, @12:20AM
The democratic system of government emerged from dictatorships. It took a long time and happened because the corruption and injustice inherent in those systems became intolerable. I would posit this is the natural course of things, inevitable.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday March 08, @04:06PM
But as has been repeated noted, China's ability to long term plan is greatly overrated. Their best progress of the past 70 years, for example, happened after they abandoned most of their long term planning from before 1980 and went to a system where they did a lot less long term planning!