What will follow China's 'great leap forward' in science?
NO COUNTRY can be a global power without an engineering and scientific base. It's necessary to run modern factories, develop new products, analyse and deal with complex social problems - pollution, food safety, sickness and disease - and (if the country chooses) to build and project military might. China's rise to power once again confirms this truism.
It is a stunning reversal.
During the Cultural Revolution (1966-'76) - Mao Zedong's grisly effort to purify the Communist Party by banishing millions of Chinese to the countryside - China repudiated modern science. It effectively shut many universities. Admissio…
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