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		<title>China Rises in Science</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2010/06/30/china-rises-in-science/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 13:59:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Washington Post covered China&#8217;s rising scientific prowess today, revealing both impressive gains and some weak spots.
China is steadily accumulating bragging points:

China has the world&#8217;s second-fastest supercomputer.
China has gone from 14th place in 1995 in publications in scientific and technical journals to 2nd now, behind the US.
A Chinese institute made the largest-ever purchase of high-tech [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China Rising?</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/06/29/china-rising/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:50:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At New America Foundation today, Minxin Pei and Andres Martinez pursued the question of whether Asia is really on the rise.  Pei was nominally the skeptic, while Martinez was cast as the proponent of the idea, though opinions were not that stark.
International system
Pei suggested that there will not be an &#8220;Asian century&#8221; in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Emerging market champions</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2006/06/12/emerging-market-champions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jun 2006 02:16:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Boston Consulting Group has released a report on 100 emerging-market companies with global competetive potential, according to the Daily Telegraph.

Firms from China (44 companies), India (21), Brazil, and Russia constitute most of the group, with Mexico also making a good showing.

Companies like these will be the shock troops for the redistribution of global economic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Communists, creationists, and competitiveness</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2006/05/24/competitiveness-ideology-and-science/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2006/05/24/competitiveness-ideology-and-science/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 May 2006 02:31:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The June 2006 Scientific American notes the 50th anniversary of the resignation of Trofim Lysenko from his position overseeing the Soviet Union&#8217;s agricultural science.
Lysenko famously set back Soviet science by rejecting Mendelian genetics &#8212; the science of genetics &#8212; in favor of the idea that organisms could acquire characteristics during their lifetimes, as the latter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New global e-readiness rankings</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2006/04/27/new-global-e-readiness-rankings/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2006/04/27/new-global-e-readiness-rankings/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Apr 2006 18:05:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Economist Intelligence Unit released its 2006 e-readiness rankings yesterday. The index is a measure of a country&#8217;s readiness for e-business, judged by Internet access, broadband penetration, innovation, information security, and other factors. More telling than the ranking is the country&#8217;s distance from a score of 10.
The ratings are a good indicator of general abilities [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Latin American competitiveness 2005-2006</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2006/04/05/latin-american-competitiveness-2005-2006/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2006/04/05/latin-american-competitiveness-2005-2006/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Apr 2006 01:38:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The World Economic Forum has released its new report on Latin American competitiveness.
Twenty-one countries are evaluated on the basis of macroeconomy, institutions, infrastructure, health, education, market efficiency, tech readiness, &#8220;business sophistication, and innovation. The rankings say a lot about the prospects of these countries &#8212; and 20 of the 21 rank poorly.
Country (global rank out [...]]]></description>
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