China 'to overtake US on science' in two years

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12885271
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In 1996, the first year of the analysis, the US published 292,513 papers - more than 10 times China's 25,474.

By 2008, the US total had increased very slightly to 316,317 while China's had surged more than seven-fold to 184,080.

Previous estimates for the rate of expansion of Chinese science had suggested that China might overtake the US sometime after 2020.

But this study shows that China, after displacing the UK as the world's second leading producer of research, could go on to overtake America in as little as two years' time.

"Projections vary, but a simple linear interpretation of Elsevier's publishing data suggests that this could take place as early as 2013," it says.

Professor Sir Chris Llewellyn Smith, chair of the report, said he was "not surprised" by this increase because of China's massive boost to investment in R&D.
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Ah well - one country squanders its wealth in war, the other invests in education and R & D.

change words

:sarcasm:

I asked her what she thought of her american high school. She said she liked it a lot because it was so easy. I groaned. She's taking a college level chem course at mit to keep up with her peers back home. I re-groaned. We are scrod.