{"id":29922,"date":"2016-09-07T11:47:23","date_gmt":"2016-09-07T18:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/china-overtakes-us-in-scientific-articles-robots-supercomputers"},"modified":"2017-04-24T19:42:37","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T02:42:37","slug":"china-overtakes-us-in-scientific-articles-robots-supercomputers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/china-overtakes-us-in-scientific-articles-robots-supercomputers","title":{"rendered":"China Overtakes US in Scientific Articles, Robots, Supercomputers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/china-overtakes-us-in-scientific-articles-robots-supercomputers2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unz.com\/akarlin\/sinotriumph\/\">http:\/\/www.unz.com\/akarlin\/sinotriumph\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nothing illustrates China\u2019s meteoric rise as some well chosen numbers.<\/p>\n<p>By the end of the 1990s, China had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unz.com\/akarlin\/actually-china-is-probably-already-bigger\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\">come to dominate<\/a> the mainstays of geopolitical power in the 20th century \u2013 coal and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_countries_by_steel_production\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\">steel<\/a> production. As a consequence, it leapt to the top of the <a href=\"http:\/\/correlatesofwar.org\/data-sets\/national-material-capabilities\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\">Compositive Index of National Capability<\/a>, which uses military expenditure, military personnel, energy consumption, iron and steel production, urban population, and total population as a proxy of national power. Still, one could legitimately argue that <i>all of<\/i> these factors <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unz.com\/akarlin\/top-10-militaries-2015\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\">are hardly relevant<\/a> today. While Germany\u2019s fourfold preponderance in steel production over Russia may have been a critical number in 1914, China\u2019s eightfold advantage in steel production over the US by 2014 is all but meaningless in any relevant comparison of national power. The world has moved on.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/defence.pk\/threads\/china-overtakes-us-in-scientific-articles-robots-supercomputers.448236\/\">http:\/\/defence.pk\/threads\/china-overtakes-us-in-scientific-a...rs.448236\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.unz.com\/akarlin\/sinotriumph\/ Nothing illustrates China\u2019s meteoric rise as some well chosen numbers. By the end of the 1990s, China had come to dominate the mainstays of geopolitical power in the 20th century \u2013 coal and steel production. As a consequence, it leapt to the top of the Compositive Index of National Capability, which uses military expenditure, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,9,6,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-military","category-robotics-ai","category-supercomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29922"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49917,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29922\/revisions\/49917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}