{"id":86598,"date":"2019-01-11T01:02:42","date_gmt":"2019-01-11T09:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/can-china-become-a-scientific-superpower"},"modified":"2019-01-11T01:02:42","modified_gmt":"2019-01-11T09:02:42","slug":"can-china-become-a-scientific-superpower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/can-china-become-a-scientific-superpower","title":{"rendered":"Can China become a scientific superpower?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/can-china-become-a-scientific-superpower2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Measured against that boom\u2014one of the most impressive periods of scientific achievement in human history\u2014China\u2019s new hardware, grand as it often is, falls a bit short. It has been catching up, not forging ahead. It has not been a beacon for scientists elsewhere. And far from benefiting from a culture of free inquiry, Chinese science takes place under the beady eye of a Communist Party and government which want the fruits of science but are not always comfortable about the untrammelled flow of information and the spirit of doubt and critical scepticism from which they normally grow.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The hypothesis that scientific greatness requires freedom of thought is about to be tested.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:none;\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/can-china-become-a-scientific-superpower2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"\" srcSet=\"\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/200-width\/images\/2019\/01\/articles\/main\/20190112_STD001.jpg 200w, \/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/300-width\/images\/2019\/01\/articles\/main\/20190112_STD001.jpg 300w, \/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/400-width\/images\/2019\/01\/articles\/main\/20190112_STD001.jpg 400w, \/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/640-width\/images\/2019\/01\/articles\/main\/20190112_STD001.jpg 640w, \/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/800-width\/images\/2019\/01\/articles\/main\/20190112_STD001.jpg 800w, \/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/1000-width\/images\/2019\/01\/articles\/main\/20190112_STD001.jpg 1000w, \/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/1200-width\/images\/2019\/01\/articles\/main\/20190112_STD001.jpg 1200w, \/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/1280-width\/images\/2019\/01\/articles\/main\/20190112_STD001.jpg 1280w,\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/1600-width\/images\/2019\/01\/articles\/main\/20190112_STD001.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 600px)  640px, calc(100vw - 20px)\"\/><\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/science-and-technology\/2019\/01\/12\/can-china-become-a-scientific-superpower?fsrc=scn\/fb\/te\/bl\/ed\/canchinabecomeascientificsuperpowerthegreatexperiment\">https:\/\/www.economist.com\/science-and-technology\/2019\/01\/12\/...experiment<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Measured against that boom\u2014one of the most impressive periods of scientific achievement in human history\u2014China\u2019s new hardware, grand as it often is, falls a bit short. It has been catching up, not forging ahead. It has not been a beacon for scientists elsewhere. And far from benefiting from a culture of free inquiry, Chinese science [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86598","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\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}