OK. What About Research and Development? China Will Beat Us at that, Too. Thank the Lawyer.

"Unburdened by social and legal constraints common in the West, China's trailblazing scientists are also pushing the limits of ethics and principle as they create a new -- and to many, worrisome -- Wild West in the Far East." We desperately need to arrest, try, and execute the lawyer hierarchy, so that our growth rate can also be 9%, and the money wasted on lawyers, can be transferred to research development, the sole possible savior of our economy.


THE OTHER SUPERPOWER
China pushing the envelope on science, and sometimes ethics
Chinese researcher and data analyst Zhao Bowen in the lab of BGI, which has insulated itself from the government's dictates.

Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, June 28, 2010

SHENZHEN, CHINA -- Last year, Zhao Bowen was part of a team that cracked the genetic code of the cucumber. These days, he's probing the genetic basis for human IQ.
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Zhao is 17.

Centuries after it led the world in technological prowess -- think gunpowder, irrigation and the printed word -- China has barged back into the ranks of the great powers in science. With the brashness of a teenager, in some cases literally, China's scientists and inventors are driving a resurgence in potentially world-changing research.


A decade ago, no one considered China a scientific competitor. Its best and brightest agreed and fled China in a massive brain drain to university research labs at Harvard, Stanford and MIT.

But over the past five years, Western-educated scientists and gutsy entrepreneurs have conducted a rearguard action, battling China's hidebound bureaucracy to establish research institutes and companies. Those have lured home scores of Western-trained Chinese researchers dedicated to transforming the People's Republic of China into a scientific superpower.

"They have grown so fast and so suddenly that people are still skeptical," said Rasmus Nielsen, a geneticist at the University of California at Berkeley who collaborates with Chinese counterparts. "But we should get used to it. There is competition from China now, and it's really quite drastic how things have changed."

China has invested billions in improving its scientific standing. Almost every Chinese ministry has some sort of program to win a technological edge in everything from missiles to medicine. Beijing's minister of science and technology, Wan Gang, will visit the United States in early July and is expected to showcase some of China's successes.

In May, for example, a supercomputer produced in China was ranked the world's second-fastest machine at an international conference in Germany. China is now in fourth place, tied with Germany, in terms of the number of supercomputers. China has jumped to second place -- up from 14th in 1995 -- behind the United States in the number of research articles published in scientific and technical journals worldwide.

Backed by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Chinese medical researchers, partnering with a firm in the United States, beat out an Indian team last year to develop a new test for cervical cancer that costs less than $5. The goal is to test 10 million Chinese women within three years.

Chinese engineers have significantly improved on Western and Soviet coal-gasification technology as part of a multibillion-dollar effort to create green Chinese energy.

America Falling Behind

Part of the explanation of prior American pre-eminence was self-defeating socialism of other nations. So their cultures and governances suppressed public striving and productivity. With less self-imposed hindrances, the US surged past others with the same intelligence and energy.

The domination of government and rule making by the lawyer profession explains all decellerations of American performance. It explains the anemic economic growth of 3% instead of 9%. It explains why our terrorist adversaries, their financiers, their intellectuals, and their leaders are not all dead. It explains the chaos, violence, and fearful atmosphere in many areas. It explains the destruction of the family, schools, churches, as competitors for moral authority to the lawyer run government.

When the public has had enough of falling behind in every area of performance, they will stop the lawyer domination of government for rent seeking purposes, destroying our nation.

Tort Reform Enhances the Local Economy

If the lawyer could be removed from policy positions in the three branches of government, including all benches, the growth rate of the economy should be 9%, and not 3%.

A Strong US Sector Going Abroad

Here. No one can blame them, after being driven out by the lawyer profession.