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The obstacles need to be conquered for invention to happen.
China is the only Asian country that is ranked low in the World Intellectual Property Organization’s Global Innovation Index (GII) for 2020. China is behind other nations in patents, trademarks and the size of its domestic market. The country is also not ranked high for GII metrics related to international relations such as student numbers…
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Beijing is refusing to change course even as Anger at the policy is rising.
Chinese President Xi Jinping has been named the General Secretary of China’s Communist Party for the next five years at a meeting of the party’s top decision-making body scheduled to be held on Wednesday. Xi has been in this role for the past five years. He has been the Chairman of the Central Committee of…
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Thank You, President XI Jinping.
China and the United States are unlikely to have a disagreement over Taiwan in the coming years, Chris Li from the Asia-Pacific Initiative at Harvard University said. China’s strategy toward Taiwan hasn’t fundamentally changed, he added. However, there’s a perception that Beijing is more and more focused on no longer just deterring independence, Li further…
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Thank you, President Jinping.
Former Chinese President Hu Jintao was escorted out of a Communist Party meeting during a five-yearly leadership reshuffle. “A high-profile purge of Hu…shows the presence of dissent, and the notion that Xi is at least ‘challengeable’,” Professor Joel Wuthnow, a senior research fellow at US National Defence University, said. Four of the top six officers…