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Non-Western Innovation Boom: Biotech in China

Non-Western Innovation Boom: Biotech in China

China invests vast amounts of resources into research programs in order to foster basic research and applied science, in particular concerning the sponsorship of future technologies such as biotech. The budget of research insti...

 
 
Chinese society collapsing under its own weight.

Chinese society collapsing under its own weight.

The only thing holding China together is the People’s Republican Party and habit. China could go down and take a lot of debts and make the current financial crisis look like nothing.

 
 
The share of German small and medium-sized companies that relocated their production sites to China due to cost advantages.

The share of German small and medium-sized companies that re ...

These companies are now discovering Germany as their main production location.

 
 
The Indian Ocean as New Nexus for Science

The Indian Ocean as New Nexus for Science

The global epicenter of twentieth-century science was the Atlantic Ocean. The richest flows of scientific ideas and labor took place Europe and North America. In the coming decades, a new regional nexus for science and innovati...

 
 
Research outsourcing

Research outsourcing

India and China offer high quality and low cost research services to the EU and US (signal for outsourcing the majority of the EU R&D).

 
 
A Chinese or Indian university in worldwide top 20 universities

A Chinese or Indian university in worldwide top 20 universit ...

A Chinese or Indian university is ranked in the top 20 universities worldwide (currently, Peking University is ranked 50th). Weak signal for future dominance of India or China over Europe in academia.

 
 
R&D collaboration tax

R&D collaboration tax

US and EU countries decide to levy high taxes on cross border R&D collaborations. Early indicator for research isolationism. For instance, Western governments fear that China and India are gaining competitive advantages through...

 
 
Alternative centres of excellence

Alternative centres of excellence

India or China emerge as the global centre for scientific excellence (i.e., ERA becomes irrelevant)

 
 
China, Russia and Arabic countries set a joint Union

China, Russia and Arabic countries set a joint Union

China, Russia and Arabic countries find a mutual set of goals. Some of the countries have a lots of energy sources, some have raw materials, some have labour force, and some have a lots of investments and liquid cash. The new j...

 
 
Cessation of Xinjiang and Tibet and the breakdown of China

Cessation of Xinjiang and Tibet and the breakdown of China

The cessation of Xinjiang and Tibet causes the breakdown of China

 
 
China's pollution leads to global trade barriers and even to open military conflicts with affected states and regions

China's pollution leads to global trade barriers and even to ...

The spread of human and environmental cost of China's pollution advances in scope and severity, leaging to conflict with affected states and regions. This leads to global trade barriers and even to open military conflicts.

 
 
Unrest of China's bachelors leads to revolution and collapse of China's role in world politics.

Unrest of China's bachelors leads to revolution and collapse ...

China's increasing pool of bachelors - projected to be nearly 30 million by 2025 - creates potential for widespread health and social consequences, including broad-based social unrest. This can lead to nation wide riots, rebel ...

 
 
 
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