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[RobertC]

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“For the first time, China has overtaken the United States as the No 1 ranked country or territory for contributions to research articles published in the Nature Index of high-quality natural-science journals,”

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the journal Nature on findings for the year 2022.

The very selective choice of the highest-quality journals made by a panel of leading scientists is designed to give a measure of the amount of high-quality research. The assessment is not simply a measure of quantity. China

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by that simple metric, the total number of science publications in 2017, according to the US National Science Foundation.

Using all the articles that appear in these 82 journals each calendar year, Nature computes its signature metric called the “Share.” The contribution of a country or an institution to all of these articles is the “

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.” The open database containing all the information used in this process is called the

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Consciously, they are judging the quality of each submission they examine for publication, but the sum of their judgments underlies the Share metric. It is a metric based not on citations but on acceptances resulting from highly demanding peer reviews. It amounts to an international self-evaluation by the scientists themselves to determine the overall quality and quantity of each nation and institution.

In the Organization for Cooperation and Development’s triennial test across 79 countries involving 600,000 15-year-olds, Chinese students “far outstripped peers in every other country in a survey of reading, math and science ability,”

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reported. This led Forbes to headline its coverage with “China’s Schoolkids Are Now Officially the Smartest in the World.”

Apologies I didn't see weig2000's post News on China's scientific and technological development.

 

[4Runner]

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The wind is indeed blowing in a different direction than that before Mate 60 Pro event ...... The Mate 60 Pro series may turn out to be a (watershed) turning point, for better or for worse. At least, it somewhat invalidates the concept of "small yard with high fence". At this juncture, my hunch is that it is all-in or fold.

 

[gelgoog]

Why is China buying agricultural products from the U. S., in the first place, if Russia is so much the more logical option?

Russia wasn't even an option until quite recently. Their farming sector collapsed after Soviet implosion. Plus like half of the richest farmland in the Soviet Union went to Belarus and Ukraine. Eventually this was seen as a major liability and the situation was reversed but it took a while.

And I wouldn't say it is the most logical option in terms of transport at least shipping is quite cheap.

 

[AssassinsMace]

But how what will make China not buy from Russia instead of the US given the land and sea routes are probably shorter...
Gotta love how USians blame socialism instead of their sanctions for ruining a country like Venezuela.

Americans especially their farmers think they have that power just to command it hence why Haley throws it out there.

 

[zbb]

As expected, the comments are a sh*t show.

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[Rafi]

China really needs more stable, and less influenceable/corruptible, partners!

U.S. HELPED PAKISTAN GET IMF BAILOUT WITH SECRET ARMS DEAL FOR UKRAINE, LEAKED DOCUMENTS REVEAL ​

The U.S.-brokered loan let Pakistan’s military postpone elections, deepen a brutal crackdown, and jail former Prime Minister Imran Khan.​

Ryan Grim, Murtaza Hussain
September 17 2023, 8:00 p.m.

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Why would China care, Russia has always been indian supporter and friend, and if Pakistan sells weapons to the US and NATO which are transferred to Ukraine no big deal, also Pakistan and Ukraine historically have had a good relationship, also Pakistan and Russia have gotten closer over the years, but a number or arms deals have been scuppered by the Indians, so there you go.

And lastly I would not trust on face value American media, they have an agenda and everyone on this forum knows what it is, Russia has agreed to sell commodities and oil at discounted rates.....Read into that what you may.

 

[emblem21]

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Who fu@king cares, cry babies are worthless, especially when they come from Uncle sam and his cheating wife

 

[Abominable]

It’s okay. Netanyahu is a conservative Jew. Liberal Jews were the ones out in the street protesting him and he hates them too.

He sides with them when it comes to Twitter. He's basically saying they're right and Elon needs to censor more.

The liberal/conservative Jewish civil war is strictly a domestic affair. They're all on the same page when it comes to outsiders.

 

[pmc]

Its not like China cannot give a loan to Pakistan that is equal to IMF. But China doesn't want to make Pakistan fully anti-US. Having a Pakistan that is Pro-US and Pro-China plus anti-India is useful for them. That means China doesn't have to take the full burden of supporting Pakistan. Plus Pakistan gets to use western weapons which should help it against India, plus China might get to peak at these weapons sometimes.

I dont think Chinese weopons will be so technically backward that it need weopons from country on IMF constraints. Arabs have interests in India and Afghan. if India keep performing well according to Arab expectations. what prevents them from appointing India as boss of South Asia and create another entity to deal with Central Asia.

 

[james smith esq]

Why would China care, Russia has always been indian supporter and friend, and if Pakistan sells weapons to the US and NATO which are transferred to Ukraine no big deal, also Pakistan and Ukraine historically have had a good relationship, also Pakistan and Russia have gotten closer over the years, but a number or arms deals have been scuppered by the Indians, so there you go.

And lastly I would not trust on face value American media, they have an agenda and everyone on this forum knows what it is, Russia has agreed to sell commodities and oil at discounted rates.....Read into that what you may.

It’s not so much the foreign component of the influence that’s dangerous, but the domestic.