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Is China Catching the US in R&D?

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Jul 13, 2012
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Against a belief that industrial China is good at copying and stealing but not much else, in fact the government has been pushing hard since at least 2006 to pour money into research and development.

In the last two years in fact, China has surpassed Japan to become the world’s second-biggest spender on R&D behind only the United States, which is forecas…

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