China’s Brain: Made in USA
Is Communist China’s meteoric rise over the past four decades from a pre-industrialized nation to an industrial/technological powerhouse a testament to the superiority of central planning? It is, according to enthusiasts of central planning such as Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman. However, as shown in the accompanying articles, the astonishing progress the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has made on the scientific, technological, industrial, and military fronts has been almost completely dependent on the continuous importation of expertise and technology from foreign sources, principally the United States. No less important than the technology transfers — including whole factories and processing plants — from the United States and other capitalist countries has been the PRC’s continuous reliance on Western universities and research centers, again, principally American, to train its scientists, engineers, and social-science professionals.
Xi Jinping is general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and chairman of the Central Military Commission, the CCP’s enforcement arm, which controls the People’s Liberation Army and the People’s Armed Police. Even though the term “president” doesn’t appear in Communist China’s constitution, Xi and the CCP are happy to have Western media and politicians refer to him as “President Xi,” since it gives a softer image and falsely infers elected legitimacy.
Chairman Xi’s top advisor is Liu He, a Harvard-trained economist who serves not only as China’s economic czar, but also as technology czar in charge of China’s push for supremacy in supercomputing and next-generation chip development. After graduating from Renmin University in Beijing, Liu He studied at Seton Hall University in New Jersey, then obtained a master’s degree in public administration from Harvard University. A longtime confidant of Xi Jinping, Liu He is now a vice premier of China and a Politburo member of the CCP. Yi Gang, who now heads the People’s Bank of China, received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Illinois and then taught as a professor at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. Guo Shuqing, chairman of the China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission, was educated at Oxford University. Unlike Xi, when Liu, Yi, and Guo address the World Economic Forum and other globalist assemblies, they speak in fluent English.
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