ASPI’s Critical Technology Tracker finds China ahead in 37 of 44 technologies evaluated

According to a report dated 3 March 2023 of the IEEE (The American Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers with corporate office in New York City and Operations Center in New Jersey), the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) finds  that China is the leading country in 37 of the 44 critical technologies evaluated, often producing more than five times as much high-impact research as its closest competitor the United States. 

The ASPI study is based on an analysis of the top 10% most-cited papers in each area of research published between 2018 and 2022 – a total of 2.2 million papers. It does not reflect the current state of commercialization or of technology diffusion.

Among the categories of critical technologies, China dominates in all the subsectors in Artificial Materials and Manufacturing; Energy and Environment; and Sensing, Timing and Navigation with a substantial lead in all other categories, as follows - 

ASPI warns that China’s advanced research “at the intersection of” photonic sensors, quantum communications, optical communications and post-quantum cryptography could undermine the U.S.-led “Five Eyes” global intelligence network. 

What is more, China seems well positioned to lead in the Fourth Industrial Revolution and Fifth Industrial Revolution that are set to redefine how people live, how businesses are conducted, and how national powers are measured in the 21st century. 

High-end nano-semiconductor chips excepted, China's technological dominance is perhaps not surprising. Since the mid-2000s, China has consistently been producing more STEM PhDs than the United States. By 2025 Chinese universities will be producing more than 77,000 STEM PhDs per year compared to approximately 40,000 in the United States. Excluding international students, Chinese STEM PhD graduates would outnumber their U.S. counterparts more than three-to-one, according to George Town University's CSET (Center for Security and Emerging Technology)'s Data Brief of August 2021

All these beg the question whether America's global technological competitiveness would be better served by attempts to stifle China's technological advance or by honing more American STEM PhDs. 

According to a report dated 3 March 2023 of the IEEE (The American Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers with corporate office in New York City and Operations Center in New Jersey), the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) finds  that China is the leading country in 37 of the 44 critical technologies evaluated, often producing more than five times as much high-impact research as its closest competitor the United States. 

The ASPI study is based on an analysis of the top 10% most-cited papers in each area of research published between 2018 and 2022 – a total of 2.2 million papers. It does not reflect the current state of commercialization or of technology diffusion.

Among the categories of critical technologies, China dominates in all the subsectors in Artificial Materials and Manufacturing; Energy and Environment; and Sensing, Timing and Navigation with a substantial lead in all other categories, as follows - 

ASPI warns that China’s advanced research “at the intersection of” photonic sensors, quantum communications, optical communications and post-quantum cryptography could undermine the U.S.-led “Five Eyes” global intelligence network. 

What is more, China seems well positioned to lead in the Fourth Industrial Revolution and Fifth Industrial Revolution that are set to redefine how people live, how businesses are conducted, and how national powers are measured in the 21st century. 

High-end nano-semiconductor chips excepted, China's technological dominance is perhaps not surprising. Since the mid-2000s, China has consistently been producing more STEM PhDs than the United States. By 2025 Chinese universities will be producing more than 77,000 STEM PhDs per year compared to approximately 40,000 in the United States. Excluding international students, Chinese STEM PhD graduates would outnumber their U.S. counterparts more than three-to-one, according to George Town University's CSET (Center for Security and Emerging Technology)'s Data Brief of August 2021

All these beg the question whether America's global technological competitiveness would be better served by attempts to stifle China's technological advance or by honing more American STEM PhDs. 

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