China significantly strengthened its standing in the middle of the last decade
The US is losing the strong historical advantage that it has built
China has built up potential monopoly positions in scientific expertise and top performing institutions
India accelerates: India now ranks in the top 5 countries for 45 of 64 technologies
The UK ranks in the top 5 countries for 36 technologies—a decline from 44 technologies in last year’s results
The European Union, as a whole, is a competitive technological player
Germany is the top-performing European Union country
South Korea’s performance shows that Japan has work to do
Iran excels at defence-sensitive technologies
Australia has improved in some technologies and slipped in others
AUKUS—the trilateral security and technology partnership involving the US, the UK and Australia28—closes the gap in some Pillar 2–relevant technologies, but not all
Technology monopoly risk metric results
Scientific breakthroughs and research innovations in key defence technologies are increasingly likely to occur in China:
China’s research lead in advanced materials and manufacturing technologies grows
Institutional findings: US tech companies, government agencies and CAS
Private-sector research is increasingly concentrated in US technology giants
Private sector research was more diverse between 2003-2007
The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) is the global science and research powerhouse
Government agencies and national laboratories feature prominently
Chinese companies play a relatively small role in the global research ecosystem
It's basically and scaremongering piece fincanced by the MIC aimed at selling more arms the way I read it. I do hope that it demoralizes China-will-collapse-any-day-now libs though.
It really shows that you get more bang for your buck when you have a government institutions doing the research vs government just giving profit driven companies money to do research as in a means of doing R&D. The company as a profit driven entity is just going to take a share as profit for itself at every turn and then do with the rest the same or less than what the government institution would have done anyway, because it didn't need to concern itself with maximizing shareholder profit.