China is beating the world at science, says think tank • The Register
China is beating the world at science, says think tank • The Register
Could monopolise 24 key techs if current trends continue
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/41003385
Oh ASPI?, yeah this is just rightwing paid for garbage.
It was started by a right wing PM, and is funded by the defence department and foreign companies, and has offices in New York. Its purpose is to make a report saying whatever the people paying them to make the report want it too.
Hah, I thought this was the usual r/sino post, but it's funny that it is right-wing propaganda. "The soviets are beating us to space" was what got the US to invest so heavily in STEM research in the 60s that it lasted until the 2000s. If this were all the propaganda they did, it would actually be healthy.
is funded by the defence department and foreign companies,
OK, I'd suspect they'd want accurate data, so what is your argument that the report is bad?
Your claim is akin to: We can't trust the report, because they are either left or right wing...That's not a good argument.
Why is this downvoted? the article is based on a REAL report by ASPI:
https://www.aspi.org.au/The report:
https://www.aspi.org.au/report/aspis-two-decade-critical-technology-trackerIf you like graphs here's a good one:
https://ad-aspi.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/2024-08/ASPI’s two-decade Critical Technology Tracker_Figure1.png?VersionId=I5XtNvKHQGJPYNWJieBDAhC_ct8mM57rBut notice they do not claim China is necessarily leading the fields, only that they are doing more research.
For instance an area like advanced aircraft engines, where China is doing what looks like 5 times more research than USA, USA has worked on that for 80 years, and China is probably still catching up.But have no doubt, China is a major force in research and technology today.
And let's see who the ASPI is since you didn't really go into that:
In February 2020, Australian Labor Party Senator Kim Carr described the ASPI as "hawks intent on fighting a new cold war."[29][30] Former Foreign Minister Bob Carr (no relation) said the ASPI provides a "one-sided, pro-American view of the world" and criticised the group for taking what he claimed was almost $450,000 from the U.S. State Department, to track Australian universities with Chinese research collaborations, and "vilifying and denigrating Australian researchers and their work." Bob Carr's criticism of ASPI came after ASPI president Peter Jennings had raised questions about the donation of $1.8 million by a Chinese billionaire to a group related to Carr.[31][32] ASPI replied that it "doesn't have an editorial line on China, but we have a very clear method for how we go about our research," and claimed that the true amount of State Department funding was less than half that amount stated by Carr.[33][34] ASPI was criticized by former diplomats John Menadue, Geoff Raby, and Bruce Haigh, with Haigh referring to ASPI as serving the foreign policy interests of the Liberal Party of Australia.[35][36] In July 2022 an article in The Economist described ASPI as "hawkish".[37]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Strategic_Policy_Institute
Maybe that's why it's downvoted.
Well to be fair, it turned out that we should probably have been more hawkish towards China sooner.
So it seems to me you are arguing against what you say you are arguing for.Nothing in what you describe shows anything wrong with the report or the article.
There is little doubt that China is spending way more on research than most countries, and being a close #2 in the world on economy, that makes it very plausible that China is in fact #1 in research today, and if we do nothing, China is destined to surpass us.Silencing that warning is doing work for China.
Real science or faked science?
Can you share some examples of fake science developed by China?
"China has the highest retraction rate globally" https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/china-conducts-nationwide-audit-of-research-misconduct-after-thousands-of-papers-retracted/4018981.article
Well, they're also investing a lot into research.
Maybe if other countries invested as much in their homegrown talent as they do in funding wars, regime change efforts, and genocidal maniacs bombing the snot out of little children, things could be different. Just a thought.
You know, I don't really think I want a scientifically advanced Russia, just saying.
China: Our BioChem corpus is far in advance of theirs as is our electronic sentience and their Ethical Inflexibility has allowed us to make progress in areas they refuse to consider
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