STRATEGIC ANALYSIS

A Growing Technological Gap with China?

Smita Purushottam is Senior Fellow at the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses. Click here for detailed profile.
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  • July 2010
    Volume: 
    34
    Issue: 
    4
    Policy

    The drivers for sustaining the decades-long growth of the Chinese economy are the subject of enduring conjecture, controversy and even wonder. From a US$1 trillion economy in the 1980s, China's GDP has crossed the US$4 trillion mark and is vying with Japan for the status of the number two economy in the world. China has now set itself the task of becoming a major research and development (R&D) power in the medium-term, signalling its ‘arrival’ as a major power.

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