China’s Long March to Technological Supremacy
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/china-science-technology-outflanking-the-us-and-europe-by-johan-rockstrom-and-inga-strumke-2026-05
China’s R&D prowess was visible in research output, patents, PhDs, and critical technologies for years, long before crystallizing into commercial products that Western investors, commentators, and policymakers noticed. And now it’s happening again.
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/china-science-technology-outflanking-the-us-and-europe-by-johan-rockstrom-and-inga-strumke-2026-05
China’s R&D prowess was visible in research output, patents, PhDs, and critical technologies for years, long before crystallizing into commercial products that Western investors, commentators, and policymakers noticed. And now it’s happening again.
How China Achieved Innovation Without Freedom
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/smart-authoritarianism-enabled-china-to-become-an-innovation-leader-by-jennifer-lind-2025-11
Though China remains a one-party state that disappears dissidents and censors ideas, it has vaulted past Japan, Germany, and France to become the world’s tenth most-innovative economy. It owes this achievement – which was long considered impossible – to a pioneering strategy of "smart authoritarianism."
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/smart-authoritarianism-enabled-china-to-become-an-innovation-leader-by-jennifer-lind-2025-11
Though China remains a one-party state that disappears dissidents and censors ideas, it has vaulted past Japan, Germany, and France to become the world’s tenth most-innovative economy. It owes this achievement – which was long considered impossible – to a pioneering strategy of "smart authoritarianism."