China Systematically Developing New Technologies

newsblaze writes "China, having recognized there are major gaps in its science and technology arsenal, released their Technology Development Plans. The plans cover five main areas — geology, mechanical engineering, metallurgical engineering and aeronautical engineering. Three areas are prioritized in space technology and six major goals are announced. All this comes after having first set out their 100 Year Vision of Greatness. They appear to be giving themselves a breathing space, telling the world they are interested in cooperation and also giving themselves a major target, in much the same way as John F Kennedy did for the USA."

Re:Watch out USA!

[NeutronCowboy]

1: Check, though a bit oversimplified. The Chinese can't just dump their reserves out, because the impact on the world will be too drastic. They're in a better position than the US, but can't really take advantage of it.
2: If by greatest, you mean largest by volume, then check.
3: No. And please define "all major powers". If you say it's the US and a smattering of European countries, I'd be tempted to agree. Though that's like bragging that the US got more gold medals at the Olympics than Luxembourg - misleading, not to mention irrelevant.
4: Wrong. They shot down a satellite to demonstrate they were able and willing to do so. Any country with ICBMs can achieve this, it's just that most are a bit more concerned than China about creating a huge mass of space junk.
5: China keeps low? That's news to Taiwan, the US, Japan, Tibet, and pretty much the whole world. I'd also assume that China would take offense to being compared in any way to Russia. Russia is a two-bit thug on the world stage, while China plans on being the super-power. And since when is a wide-body passenger plane anything to brag about? Airbus would love to forget its latest venture in that area.
6: Wrong. Military expenditures by China: 4.6%. Military expenditures by the US: 4.06%. And this is from heavily understated official figures.

China will be the world power by the time the second half of this century rolls around, but only one of your reasons will have even remotely something to do with it.

Re:Cultural differences

[Zontar_Thing_From_Ve]

Why bother planning for the next 100 years when the rapture is immanent? Instead, they should be teaching the Bible in schools like we do here, so that they might be saved when Jesus returns.

It will no doubt shock you to know this, but the majority of Christians in the world do not believe in the rapture and quite a few of us really have no desire at all for the Bible to be taught in schools. Churches and parents can do the Bible teaching quite nicely on their own. The problem is that the people who do believe in the rapture and want the Bible to be taught in school make an awful lot of noise and while they are in very large numbers in the USA, they are not in the majority in other places. Catholics, Orthodox and other Christian groups totally reject the idea of the rapture as a misunderstanding of the Bible. But I suppose you probably think we all spend our spare time bombing abortion clincs too, don't you?

Re:It's easier when you have a target

[CyberLord Seven]

It's not that simple.

You have to have a reason for your people to not want unions.

From what I understand Toyota and Nissan take much better care of their employees than GM and Ford. At Toyota and Nissan if you come up with a great idea that will eliminate your responsibilities you do not lose your job!

Of course not all the blame goes to the auto companies. They were working within the framework of the society at large and it's laws. And they were also dealing with their own history towards their own employees.

Funny that you say that

[WindBourne]

The American autoworkers in the Japanese plants ARE unionized. In fact, they are making as much as the folks up north. Personally, I have always thought that if a company such as GM or Ford or United Airlines is heading downwards, it is the management that should the blame. But like our politicians, those at the top try hard to shift the blame to those below them. I would guess that it is the lack of personal responsibility that is costing America. I wonder if we introduce Seppuku for our top leaders in Gov. and Business that fail, if that would help.

Re:It's easier when you have a target

[Vicissidude]

They started with making inferior copies cheaply, figured out how to improve the quality without substantially increasing the cost

Actually, the Japanese also copied their quality improvement program from an American, W. Edwards Deming [wikipedia.org]. We handed them everything they're currently using to put us out of business.

Japan started upon Deming's quality improvement path in 1950. Ford Motor, in contrast, didn't start until 1981. Those facts alone can explain the last 40 years of automotive history.

Strip-mining and militarizing of Tibet is set to..

[Anonymous Bullard]

Chinese strip-mining [phayul.com] and colonization [phayul.com] of Tibet and the militarization [phayul.com] of the historically "new border areas" facing India [phayul.com] (since the 1950 invasion of Tibet by Mao's communist army) are all set to become that much more "ruthlessly efficient" once the "gaps" identified in geology, mechanical engineering, metallurgical engineering and aeronautical engineering by the junta in Beijing have been addressed. The massive Tibetan mineral deposits already scouted and mapped by the Chinese geologists will make sure that the occupying regime will no show mercy for the Tibetan nation as long as 1) the resources are there to be stolen and 2) the regime remains in absolute power.

Thank your lucky stars right now if you weren't born as a Tibetan, or if you did, that you've never heard about the vague terms of "the UN declaration of human rights" or "solidarity"... although sometimes what you don't know can still hurt you badly.

Luckily, or "double-luckily", for the expansionist Chinese junta, the territories of East Turkestan [uygur.org] they grabbed from the turkic muslim Uygur people [fsnet.co.uk] across the vast Taklamakan desert were far easier to exploit for oil, gas, minerals and even uranium since unlike Tibet (aka The Roof of the World) the Uygur homeland lies at or even below sea level.

And for some reason the islamic world is too busy hating the "West" to pay attention to their Uyghur brothers being wiped off the map in actual fact.

Re:this is all well and nice but

[LynnwoodRooster]

Having lived in Germany (Munich, Wolfostrasse), Chile (Vina Del Mar, Catorce Norte by the mall), China (Minhang District, Shanghai, Hualin Lu), and the US (mainly in the Seattle, WA area) I can assure that - as bad as you think it is here - it is MUCH worse in all those other countries.

People who habitually decry our supposed lack of "human rights" or "freedoms" simply are ignorant of the truth. Get out and travel, live in other countries, and learn what we really have in the US.

How you got modded insightful I'll never know... Fear and Loathing in the US...