Posted on 09/16/2025 3:16:22 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
MOVE OVER, GERMANY: CHINA JOINS THE GLOBAL INNOVATION ELITE
For the first time ever, China has muscled into the UN’s top 10 most innovative countries - bumping Germany down to 11th.
With Beijing pouring money into R&D and dominating global patent filings, the world’s biggest economies are officially on notice.
Switzerland, Sweden, and the U.S still top the list, but China is closing in fast and could soon outspend everyone in research.
Germany’s decades of industrial prowess now face a new challenge: becoming relevant in
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I guess the ChiComs no longer need MFN status?
All China had to do was bribe other world leaders into paralyzing their countries.
Innovations like novel viruses that start pandemics.

The US Patent Office HATES America,
HATES Americans, and loves foreign companies and countries.
The past Commissioners and everyone running a treason
office there BELONGED in GITMO trials last year -
but they evade accountability to murder Americans.
Have you read the patents or research papers from China. They are AI trash, not innovation. Some times they are direct copies of real patents. And sometimes they are just copying bad AI trash. And it happens thousands of times.
Bkmk
Since communism, for sure, what have the Chicoms innovated that they haven’t stolen first?
The "research" scandal you mention is ongoing worldwide. I have read, albeit cursorily, a number of referenced papers and find occasional nuggets but mostly its "deep in the weeds" because publishing the bilge has itself become a big business.
The following -- before AI and done to get "peer reviews" which indeed came to prove the idiocy -- is an example of why President Eisenhower warned of this all.
China got "permanent normal trade relations (NTR) status" signed into law here by Clinton in 2000. Everything went downhill, courtesy of Democrats.
And then of course the Clintons were involved in that Uranium One deal, also under Democrats. China is no friend, but Democrats have treated it as one for decades.
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