Nickname: Jack

Review: A reader wants good, solid, and objective reporting. It is with regret that I say that BusinessWeek's "editor" consistently fails on that measure. If you wish to report on international affairs, you must first understand the issues involved. For one, can you imagine if US industry were hounded every step of the way by envious onlookers as it was developing during the early 1900s? What pollution US factories emitted (and still do by the way, but this is a fact that is ignored by the BusinessWeek's "editor"). Your typical reader is not stupid, so avoid assuming that he or she is.

Date reviewed: Sep 16, 2007 1:33 PM

Nickname: Chinese

Review: I am Chinese. I can perceive that there is much room for improvement in every aspect in China. Sometimes, I am disappointed at the current situation. However, I still have confidence on the governmnet. I believe development needs a process--and the real development stage of China is yet to come.

Date reviewed: May 23, 2006 6:37 AM

Nickname: nanheyangrouchuan

Review: Social controls by the Communist Party are directly and solely to blame for China not being able to evolve socially on it's own, and that includes the schools. As for scientific achievement, R&D takes a lot of time, and in the name of building nationalist pride, the Party doesn't want to take decades to build a solid R&D base. It wants innovation and it wants it during the newest 5 year plan. Thus, problems such as massive copyright fraud are more rampant. China invented a lot of great things in the past, but it took tens or hundreds of years of accumulated knowledge and study. The same with tech achievement in the West. China needs to dump the Communist Party to save itself. There is no other way.

Date reviewed: May 22, 2006 6:10 PM

Nickname: HL

Review: One thing that is quite common about state-owned entities including universities is top management people don't have knowledge and expertise on the subject that they are incharge of. All these top management personnel are Party Members who know only how to deal with politics. Take the university case, probably the researcher's supervisor doesn't know a damn thing about the technical detail of the chip project!

Date reviewed: May 19, 2006 4:53 PM

Nickname: Sethu

Review: It was probably very tempting for the author to link the "Han xin" chip scandal to cast China in a bad light. Every country goes through the development anxiety and there are bound to be some pitfalls. It is OK to recognize them. In some countries it is easily corrected. Even in the US scientific frauds did and do occur. Bring frauds and misdeeds to light. But just because China is showing its economic power, don't exhibit that jeaslousy by linking unrelated items. The E&Y report is a sham. They should have checked their report for accuracy before they published it and not retracted it afterwards.

Date reviewed: May 19, 2006 3:24 PM

Nickname: Prashant

Review: This comment refers to the quality of the article. At best it makes a failed attempt at shedding some light into the "leap" that it is trying to address. But the "leap" abruptly disappears in a discussing china's non performing loans and other macro economic statistics. I have nothing against this, but articles should not be written just for the sake of "writing".

Date reviewed: May 18, 2006 10:15 AM

Nickname: Tony Chen

Review: I am originally from China. I felt ashamed and disgusted that my fellow people cheat on scientific research. I also feel ashamed that we have widely spread piracy. We want to regain our glorious past. However, we have play to the rules and respect other people's investments, whether in software or product innovation. We can not claim to be a world power while cheating! I am glad a real effort to correct this appears to be starting. I am also glad the openness in admitting piracy and openness of this scandal. It is a very good start. China has 1.3 billion people and has one of the highest national average IQ. We will regain our glory. However, we must remember that we can not bear the baggage that we cheated to reach our goal.

Date reviewed: May 18, 2006 5:58 AM

Nickname: hkpal

Review: What is happening in China is no different than what developed countries have gone through. As societies develop, they face a lot of issues such as the environment, corruption, human rights, scandals, lack of professionalism, cheating, copying, etc. Not a single developed country (even the US or UK) can claim to be immune to any of these. The only difference may be that what happened in other developed countries over 100 years has happened in China within the past 20 years.

Date reviewed: May 17, 2006 6:01 PM

Nickname: China Law Blog

Review: These are two very different issues. The chip issue is, of course, bad news for China, but at the same time, we should be impressed at how China recognized the problem, admitted to it, and dealt with it. The E&Y report is much more of a reflection on E&Y (at least so far) than it is on China. Until E&Y does a "post mortem" on its report, it is too early to say why it had the big change of heart. www.chinalawblog.com

Date reviewed: May 17, 2006 3:50 PM

Nickname: trump_tice

Review: I am now in China. Maybe I have the priviledge to comment on the issues happening in China right now. The Chinese have had both suffering and glorious history. They are eager to brush off their shame from the latest 150 years. They can't be satisfied till they reach up the peak, though they may be too eager. There's enormous potential for them. And what I want to point out is that their culture might exert a mighty pull during their process of development. There may be twists and turns, but they're going forward.

Date reviewed: May 17, 2006 1:41 PM