Final Score: China Wins, US Retires From Science Competition
News flash
While China’s economy grew 7% compounded for generations, Beijing also increased annual R&D investment by 2.5% compounded for just as long. Read this chart (and weep):
America’s v in R&D stalled in 2016 and is poised to fall for the first time since 1946.
Independent verification
We need not seek far for evidence that the race essentially ended ten years ago:
