China Developing own Standards

J ROC writes "Encouraged by their government Chinese electronics firms are shunning technological protocols invented abroad and developing their own, according to this article. The Chinese have developed several standards including EVD to replace DVD standards, and TD-SCDMA to replace the CDMA cell phone standard found elsewhere. The reasons seem to be partly based on "techno-nationalism", and Chinese firms growing tired of paying foreign patent fees. While this may force foreign firms to lower their patent fees, some experts warn that China risks isolating itself if it creates standards that are incompatible with the rest of the world."

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Re:This shouldn't come as a surprise....

[chris_mahan]

Except that we don't know exactly under what circumstances those dead detainees died under. Between getting my head sawed off and being tortured for hours by brutal, cruel, and gruesome US interrogators, then killed, I dunno man.

Maybe the US interrogators should have the decency of building a gas chamber to humanely terminate their failed interrogation experiments.

Welcome to Hell.

Oh, and the ends never justify the means.
[/rant]

On China. They have a 5000 + years history, and they have at various times held the reins of innovation (gunpowder anyone?). I wouldn't put it past chinese ingenosity to come up with really good stuff; and the Chinese government is a body perfectly capable of enforcing standards.
Also note that a large amount of the world's electronics is made in China. They of all people have the resources to actually make cheap, reliable, and standards-based electronic devices.