[sdiy] OT: Chinese goods

[Ian Fritz]

At 01:31 PM 9/15/2011, David G Dixon wrote:
> > The problems will come if and when the Chinese learn to
> > innovate themselves.
> > Fortunately for us, innovation requires free-thinking of
> > exactly the sort that will get you locked up.
>
>It's coming.

Absolutely.  As I understand it, they are already doing well in some fields 
such as biotech/drugs. They are building huge well-funded research 
institutes and even hiring away brains from the West.

I remember when people talked the same way about Japan -- couldn't do 
anything but cheap ripoffs.  Then suddenly -- it almost seemed overnight -- 
I saw their research papers starting to turn up in prestigeous journals 
such as Applied Phys. Lett.  China will be next.

Ian