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

[Mosiah]

It's just amazing to see how we are looking at what's happening today to assess China's potential as a technological power in the future.

Amazing! And sad!!

[Hortical]

No one is disputing China as a major world power, but they are not even in the ballpark when it comes to innovation & technology with the USA.

[Islandman]

When the Japanese was starting to build cars, Detroit couldn't stop sip dem wine and laugh!

Dem somebody go tell dem say dem can build consumer electronics and dem start a likkle company name Sony. Joke ting! Like dem neva did hear bout RCA before.

This was what, just 40-50 years ago?

You better go tell China say Rome have coliseum dat dem build thousands of years ago ago! Dem new to this technology ting!

And you never hear bout Egypt? Dem man deh build pyramid from back inna Biblical times! China nuh ready yet!

[Mosiah]

This is a frikking joke! The thread talks about Chinese THREAT to US technology. It does not even suggest when that threat will become an imminent take over. It could be 5 years from now or 50 years from now. Did we not even bother to read the article?!?!?

* 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".
* 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.
* 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.

That's the foundation you need to establish yourself as a THREAT to US technology. Or is all that not important?!?!

Even this fact - "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." - is misleading. Most of the engineers and scientists in the USA are foreigners, and many are CHINESE! Go to any grad school in the USA and see who makes up the science classes. Yes, some of these foreigners will become US citizens.

Well, thank goodness some congressmen are not as short-sighted as some of us here are on the Forum. They are about to change immigration laws that will capture some of these foreign scientists. They have recognised the THREAT!

[Mosiah]

Okay, Hortical, your job and that of your children and grandchildren are safe!

[Islandman]

The rote learning argument is bogus and in my view has a racist undertone.

They used to say that about Indians too, today Hyderbad and Bangalore hosts a campus for just about every major US technology company and they are not doing just customer support there, they are doing R&D!

[Don1]

Okay, Hortical, your job and that of your children and grandchildren are safe!

LOL...not even tudeh dem ting deh safe...much more tomorrow

Mek di frog dem gwaan bwile pawdie

[Muadib]

America is an idea.. look like yuh nuh unnastan yet..

Yuh need to study di ting again...

Homogeneous model is limiting...

[Hortical]

You guys seem to forget that China is sort of a "closed" society and can not be accurately compared to Japan. This put restraints on innovation....

[Islandman]

They are absolutely not Japan, they have the potential to be much more dominant.

20% of the world's population.....over a billion people.

[Mosiah]

Excuse No. 18 as to why the USA has nothing to worry about.

Send on the rest!

[Muadib]

Explain this worry concept...

What is the downside for this China 'threat' ?

Why everybody suh concerend about America anyway ??

[Mosiah]

Bringing this to the top.

I wonder if things have changes since May 11, 2013.

Muadib?

[Don1]

Dem country yah ah joke

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. PLO graduates, and as many as 500,000 BSc graduates in engineering, mathematics, information technology, and computer science – more than any other country.

Where are the critical stats on "tourism graduates"?

The number of tourists they hope to attract?

How skilled their servants are???

Dem priorities clearly backward

[Mosiah]

Objects in Mirror May be Closer than They Appear!

http://www.statista.com/statistics/2...-applications/