Jawge, you still think China is no threat to US technology?

[Mosiah]

In the first participation of Chinese student in an international student assessment test, the 2009 Programme for International Student Assessment, 15-years-old students from Shanghai ranked first in all of the three categories: mathematics, science, and reading. The Chinese students scored particularly well compared to other nations in mathematics. One explanation for the Chinese results may be a culture emphasizing education and competitive examinations and more time spent studying in part due to less participation in activities such as sports. Teaching have become a higher status occupation. Also, industrialized Shanghai which has done important educational reforms may not be representative for the rest of China. While there was no evidence of cheating or technical problems with the testing, Shanghai which attracts many immigrants from the rest of China may have allowed particularly good students to study in the city and the students may have been told that the test was important for China's image. The OECD director of the testing, Andreas Schleicher, said that the results were expected to produce astonishment and had been examined for accuracy by international experts after the OECD received the Shanghai scores. He also said that the results "refute the commonly held hypothesis that China just produces rote learning" and "Large fractions of these students demonstrate their ability to extrapolate from what they know and apply their knowledge very creatively in novel situations".

China has become of the world's biggest sources for research and development personnel. Between 2000 and 2008, the number of engineers and scientists more than doubled to 1.59 million. Relative to population size this is still low compared to major developed nations like the United States and Japan but the gap is rapidly closing. The number of doctorate awards in science and engineering have increased tenfold since the early 1990s. The number of students in general at universities increased from 1 million to 5.4 million during the 1998-2007 period. In 2009 alone, China produced over 10,000 Ph.D. engineering graduates, and as many as 500,000 BSc graduates in engineering, mathematics, information technology, and computer science – more than any other country.

[Muadib]

Merica land pon di Moon over 40 years ago...

Relax yuhself.. wheh dem figget bout technology.. China nuh learn yet..

[Mosiah]

Oh! A did you a talk nonsense too!

Duly archived!

[Muadib]

China is no threat to US Technology.. yuh nuh si Don1 give up flogging dat dead horse..

Yuh tek ovah ?

[HL]

when you fine de time watch dis..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPILhiTJv7E

[Mosiah]

Interesting!

I don't see the how that relates to the thread initiator. But thanks!

[Mosiah]

Wid a quickness!

[Muadib]

Sorry to burst your bubble Flash...

<Even so, Ernst said, the gap in innovation capacity persists, and China’s leadership is very conscious that the U.S. retains a strong lead in R&D spending, patent applications and the per-capita number of scientists and engineers. A telling example, he said, is that no Chinese company is among the top 20 global R&D spenders in the information technology industry. In addition, China owns just two percent of worldwide patents, with 95 percent of its patents being domestic only.>

[Jawge]

Mo mi really busy right now all kinds ah tings mi haffi do. Das why mi nuh too post (more while mi well waan ansa but mi juss read).

Yuh nuh shame say Ben slap yuh bout di place pon dis one. US already change out into fourth gear (granted a six speed vehicle) nuh worry yuhself, juss watch di ride.

[Willi]

Karreck Mo.

[Muadib]

What him karreck bout ?

[Willi]

Be afraid, be very afraid.

[Muadib]

afraid fi wha ?

How it affect wi ?

America have Chiney, Indian.. you name it...

[World Fan]

How China is educating Africa

http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-dev...hat-means-west

How China is educating Africa – and what it means for the west

In an extract from a new book, China's aspirational approach to education and investment in Africa is distinguished from the west's focus on basic needs

MDG University of Ibadan, Nigeria
Students of Nigeria's University of Ibadan. China recognises African aspirations towards the benefits and prestige of higher education. Photograph: George Esiri/Reuters

The da xue (Mandarin: the big study, or the big reading) or dai ho(k) (Cantonese: the big learning) are Chinese terms for a university. In the romance of the "old days", learning was the only way to bypass the class system. China's annual imperial exams allowed even the poorest subject to step outside his poverty and feudal status to become an official. When, later, learning became concentrated in universities, the institutions became prestigious and symbolic. They were the portals of escape.

The Morality of China in Africa: The Middle Kingdom and the Dark Continent
by Stephen Chan

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With this in mind, it is amazing that Chinese aid to Africa has not seized earlier upon the building of universities. The addition of universities was unremarked in the original Chinese proposal for the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in 2008. China pledged a $9bn loan, $3bn of which was to develop mines, over which China entered a 68/32% joint venture involving Sinohydro Corporation and DRC's previously almost defunct Gecamines; and $6bn was for infrastructure, with China Railway Engineering Corporation playing a major role.

The Chinese expected to gain 6.8m tonnes of copper and 620,000 tonnes of cobalt over a 25-year period. However, China would also build huge expanses of road and railway and, along those transport routes, a large number of clinics, schools and universities. It was an unheard-of proposal; it would have transformed development in the south of DRC, with provision for a huge increase in the national pool of trained personnel; and it thoroughly alarmed the west, which saw an exponential increase of Chinese influence in central Africa.

Using the IMF as a battering ram, and insisting upon the priority of its own development assistance programme, the west succeeded in reducing the Chinese package to $6bn. At the time of writing, it is unclear how many elements of infrastructure have been sacrificed in this reduction. But it still means 2,400 miles of road, 2,000 miles of railway, 32 hospitals, 145 health centres and two universities. On this occasion, there was a keen symmetry between Chinese and African aspiration – and this included both the benefits and the prestige of higher education.

Western assistance has always prioritised primary schooling, but the Chinese approach in this instance recognised something beyond foundational competencies. It recognised the need for educational foundations for international competitiveness – albeit in a distant future. In the meantime, it recognised the psychological foundation a university degree confers in situations of underdevelopment. The graduate is credentialised as having escaped the structural constraints of poverty upon his or her capacity to understand and interrogate the world. In the backwaters of southern DRC, this has the psychological impact of a huge achievement.

[…]

To an extent, the west has returned to the "basic needs" template – that the emphasis should be on clean water, housing and the like. "Assured subsistence" might be another coinage. The current emphasis on millennium development goals is a sophisticated development of this template, and gender equality is really the only key addition and difference. The goals are not only a set of targets; they constitute a ceiling. The aim is very much to ensure a level of development that prevents slippage into underdevelopment; it is not to take any part of Africa into a millennium in which, like China, it challenges the west.

The west is not providing aid to develop a competitor. Nor are the Chinese. But the image of China, precisely as a competitor to the west, is a deeply attractive one. So China as a developed economic and technological power is an aspirational model. What this aspiration envisages in Africa is the right to manufacture, to the industrialisation of products, to beneficiation. By and large, the Chinese are not providing this, just as the west did not.

However, in so far as joint ventures might be possible between such African industrial concerns that exist and Chinese ones, the outlook for co-operation in automotive manufacture in South Africa is, while hardly consolidated, a prospective one. So that when the west looks upon current Sino–African relations with alarm, it should be mindful that, perhaps, it is alarmed by a stage one, and might be even more alarmed by the possibility of a stage two. This stage could not provide competition with China, but it could in certain sectors provide competition with the west. The processing of coffee and cocoa, for instance, would not compete with Chinese concerns but would destabilise processing plants in Europe.

The upward spiral of this moves on to petroleum refineries across all African oil producers, but also local build of pipes for pipelines. Chinese assistance with steel plants is a key outlook for the future. But these would be best suited to joint ventures, and this would require the upgrade of local capacities as well as local investment. It would also require, as co-operation became more sophisticated, shared senior management. A working joint Sino–African company board of a major enterprise would have to become more than a rare event.

• The Morality of China in Africa: The Middle Kingdom and the Dark Continent, edited by Stephen Chan, is published by Zed Books, May 2013. Extract reproduced with permission of Zed Books

[Hortical]

China may come up with a lot of new technology every now & then, but they are way behind the US in innovation. Not even close!
Their brand new subway system in Shanghai, the ITS does not work! Conductors communicate by CB radio! They built a so-called aircraft carrier based an old abandoned freightliner from the Ukraine, and they have yet to figure out how to land fighter jets on it.