[ExI] China will soon spend more money on scientific research, than the United States!

[John Grigg]

"China is on track to surpass the United States by the end of this year,
according to the National Science Board. In 2016, annual scientific
publications from China outnumbered those from the United States
<https://www.nsf.gov/statistics/2018/nsb20181/report/sections/overview/research-publications>
for the first time.

“There seems to be a sea change in how people are talking about Chinese
science,” said Alanna Krolikowski, a Chinese science expert at Missouri
University of Science and Technology. Foreign observers, many of whom were
once condescending, now “are rather in awe at what the Chinese policies
have accomplished.”

The scientific advances are a small piece of China’s larger ambitions.
President Xi Jinping aims to supplant the United States as the world’s
economic superpower within three decades. In October, Xi vowed to produce
“a world-class army by 2050.”

https://beta.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/china-challenges-american-dominance-of-science/2018/06/03/c1e0cfe4-48d5-11e8-827e-190efaf1f1ee_story.html?noredirect=on

https://eos.org/articles/china-catching-up-to-united-states-in-research-and-development

What should be done to preserve the technological power of the West,
against a resurgent and tyrannical China?

John
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