[IP] China accelerating into the future

[Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>]

Title: approve:tippie  China accelerating into the future

This is an issue I feel strongly about. We are in danger of becoming a technical second rate country in a few more decades (if not sooner). Our research labs , at least in my areas, are mostly gone either through company contraction or due to being exported off shore.

Dave


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From: "Robert J. Berger" <rberger@ibd.com>
Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2003 22:54:17 +0900
To: Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>, Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne@warpspeed.com>
Subject: China accelerating into the future

These headlines came across my virtual desk today. Unfortunately you must pay to read the articles, but the headlines do speak for themselves. 
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The point that hit me is that China is moving ahead with engineering, bio-tech and modern post-industrial production while the US seems to be distracted while it unconsciously falls into a fog of spin and anti-intellectualism , banning scientific experiments based on religious fundamentalism and slowing down investment in new manufacturing and innovation.

US Scientists are already moving their labs to China do do biotech research that is banned here in the US. Guess who is going to be the most powerful nation in a decade if our government keeps up our their retro-behaviors....
> > ATIP (Asian Technology Information Program) has released a new Chinese Science and Technology Digest for February 15-28, 2003. Headlines: 
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> > China Will Invest 700 Billion Yuan (~US$85B) for Scientific Development
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> > 8.2 Billion Cell Phone Short Messages Sent Last Month in China
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> > Chinese First Digital Chip Developed in Shanghai
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> > China's Information Technology Sector Reports Slowdown
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> > China Discovers New Genes That Cause Parkinson's Disease
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> > China Puts New Anti-AIDS Drug in Clinical Use
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> > China Approves Production of HIV Testing Reagent
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> > Oracle to Train 4,000 Chinese Software Engineers Annually
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> > Organ Transplant Center Opens in Shanghai
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> > To view this newsfeed, please visit the ATIP website at: 
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> > To subscribe to the China News site, please visit: 
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> > http://www.atip.org/CHINANEWS/



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