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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: 2) by quietus on Tuesday March 07, @07:52AM (2 children)
Your comment made me wonder whether the geopolitics of the Cold War weren't really the geopolitics of today i.e. upstart empires trying to push the incumbent empire from the throne -- with communist versus capitalist rhetoric just being the new wrapping paper around traditional power structures.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday March 07, @02:20PM (1 child)
You're onto something. Marxist thinking underlies a lot of modern progressive thinking. The right to education, Universal Basic Income, universal health care, and more. Not all Marxist thinking is wrong, or evil, but Marxism is basically flawed. But, we see "new" movements espousing a lot of Marxist thinking. Today's Antifa, for instance, didn't pop out of a vacuum - the groundwork was laid a century or more ago, with previous example organizations. Sorting out the threads is a helluva big job, but, yes, yesterday's geopolitics have flowed into today's, with some of the same actors, some actors being replaced. It's life.
The Cold War was just the biggest, central theater within that ongoing, fluid geopolitical drama. Not much is going to change in the next few hundered years, I think.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by quietus on Tuesday March 07, @06:58PM
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