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A comment on China Overtakes U.S. For First Time as Top Spender on R&D in 2024. Parent comment

Re:China Overtakes U.S. For First Time as Top Spender on R&D... by Danox on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @02:20AM (#50067536)
You need to speak the language…
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Re:China Overtakes U.S. For First Time as Top Spender on R&D... by seanmcdirmid on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @02:24AM (#50067546)
You can totally get by on survival phrases. Many of my fellow foreign coworkers in Beijing could barely speak a few phrases and they did fine. Today it’s even easier than it was 20 years ago.
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Re:China Overtakes U.S. For First Time as Top Spender on R&D... by soohamr on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @08:09PM (#50080726)
Exactly.
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