Ten years ago, chinese ‘science’ was anything but. Today, we are seeing papers t

Ten years ago, chinese ‘science’ was anything but. Today, we are seeing papers that are technically competent coming out of chinese researchers. They excel, as do the japanese, at marshaling a large number of people to contribute to a single project. Whereas in the west, our signal economy drives us to innovate in inexpensive niches, rather than expensive objectives.