R&D spending in China continues to increase today.
Old post below on empirical observations of R&D spending and the middle-income trap.
I think China has already got out of the middle-income trap, based on the income of residents in its first and second tier cities. It's just a matter of time the whole China will be as rich as those big cities. It's almost inconceivable that China will have a rich coastal area in the east and a much poorer inland area in the west permanently.
This shows how dumb is the media. All this talk about COVID-19 being accidentally leaked from a lab... How would they know about it if it's new to then have it in a lab? Did COVID-19 announce itself and admit how dangerous it was to humans? The only way they would have it stored is if there was an outbreak before and that's how they discovered it and knew to keep it for study. They think China is lying right now about controlling coronavirus and they think it's still raging uncontrollably through China with many more cases and deaths than China is admitting. Yeah but they somehow got control of it the first time...?
Trump doesn't think deep. That's why he's blaming Obama because people are telling him China had it in their lab. If China had it then Obama must've knew about coronavirus and have it in US labs also and did nothing hence why he's trying to lay the blame on him. That means there's nothing new about coronavirus. The idea that it's new is to lay blame squarely on China because of Chinese unsanitary cultural habits the reason to why all of this is happening. If it's not new then that argument is void. They're contradicting themselves. If they wanted to know the truth, they wouldn't throw out contradictory arguments. So what's left is just their lies.
There is zero evidence that China had possession of the SARS-CoV-2 in the Wuhan lab before the outbreak. I said it before, and I will say it again. When was the last time that some pathogen had been collected by humans before it infected humans in the wild? Never. It's always the other way around. Some infectious agent caused disease in humans, then it is collected by humans for study. There are quite a few animals can be secondary hosts of the SARS-CoV-2, such as pigs, ferrets, and cats:
Pigs, ferrets, cats and non-human primates contain largely favorable 2019-nCoV-contacting residues in their ACE2, and hence may serve as animal models or intermediate hosts for 2019-249nCoV. It is worth noting that SARS-CoV was isolated in wild palm civets near Wuhan in 2005, and its RBD had already been well adapted to civet ACE2 (except for residue 487). Thus, bats and other wild animals in and near Wuhan should be screened for both SARS-CoV and 2019-nCoV
Remember the BS that there are no SARS-CoV-2 carrying bats within 1,000 km of Wuhan? Well, there are no SARS-CoV carrying bats within 1,000 km of Wuhan either, yet it was isolated in wild palm civets near Wuhan in 2005.
Situation in the U.S. on 5/2:
Situation in China on 5/2, excluding HK, Macau, and TW: