China Leads Research in 90% of Crucial Technologies — a Dramatic Shift This Century
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While at the beginning of the century the US led more than 90 percent of the future fields, the ratio has recently turned completely in favor of China
China Now Leads Research in 90% of Critical Technologies, Marking a Historic Global Shift
China has emerged as the world’s leading research power across nearly 90 percent of technologies considered vital to national security and economic competitiveness, according to a major new analysis published by Nature. The findings reflect a dramatic reversal from the start of the century, when the United States overwhelmingly dominated advanced technology research. The data […] The post China Now Leads Research in 90% of Critical Technologies,…
China leads research in 90% of crucial technologies — a dramatic shift this century
Xiaoying You in Nature: The ASPI’s Critical Technology Tracker evaluated high-quality research on 74 current and emerging technologies this year, up from the 64 technologies it analysed last year. China is ranked number one for research on 66 of the technologies, including nuclear energy, synthetic biology and small satellites, and the United States topped the remaining 8, including quantum computing and geoengineering. The results reflect a dra…
Since the beginning of the century, China has made huge advances in research in no less than seventy-four technologies, and has developed a pawn shop in the United States, a think-tank whose conclusions are taken up by the journal 'Nature'.
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