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Re:China now the most prolific contributor to physical scien... by MisterTea on Thursday September 13, 2018 @08:32AM (#17978050)
> what China demonstrated here is, that it is totally possible for a poor country to bootstrap itself

All the American and European companies who moved production there bootstrapped China. The money had to come from somewhere. China saw the immense opportunity in western greed and ran with it.

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Re:China now the most prolific contributor to physical scien... by rangibaby on Thursday September 13, 2018 @09:12AM (#17978303)
USSR (for all its faults) achieved the same thing in a more hostile environment than the PRC.
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Re:China now the most prolific contributor to physical scien... by obscurantist on Saturday September 15, 2018 @07:08PM (#17996468)
The USSR achieved more than just the same thing. When you say more hostile environment, I'm assuming you mean they were in an essentially autarkic condition, unlike contemporary China. But beyond that, the Soviets produced far greater, actually novel results in sciences, mathematics, and technology while having only one-fifth of China's population.
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Re:China now the most prolific contributor to physical scien... by oh-kumudo on Thursday September 13, 2018 @04:24PM (#17982199)
If anything, the Chinese education system is a ripoff from Soviet Union, not the Western countries. It is probably still is.
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