China: the New Advanced Technology Research Hotbed

securitas writes "The New York Times' Chris Buckley reports that China is the new hotbed of advanced technology research and development for hundreds of global technology companies. The list includes household names like Oracle (which 'opened a lab in Beijing to tailor its Linux operating software to suit its Asian customers'), Motorola, Siemens, IBM, Intel, General Electric, Nokia and others. Microsoft Research Asia hopes Google-surpassing technology comes from a group of '10 researchers ... working on new ways to drill deep into the Internet and select and organize the information found there.' Growth of the R&D sector in China is so rapid that 'within five years China could overtake Britain, Germany and Japan as a base for corporate research, leaving it second only to the United States.'"

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Worker's Paradise

[Doc Ruby]

While China climbs the tech ladder to success and power, America is climbing down into a miasma of faith and innuendo. Isn't it wierd how President Bush Sr. went from Nixon's UN ambassador to his GOP Chairman spinmaster to his China ambassador to CIA director to VP to President, then finally director of the giant multinational Carlyle Group as his son presided over the greatest transfer of wealth and power from the US to China? This will be a swell nation of bucolic christian farmers growing feasts for the Chinese mobsters running the globe, and the Bushes will have reaped a healthy reward.