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China is becoming a green giant

Evans Osnos wrote an interesting and well researched article about China's clean technology in his New Yorker column "Letters from China".  http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/12/21/091221fa_fact_osnos The shrewd observation Evans made in that article is that the combination of US's innovation and China's mass production capability will make future move at a fast pace, illustrated by joint Sino -US ventures in clean technology.  He observed that US innovators possess the blazing spirits that are necessary to push forward frontiers of innovations, while Chinese lack such sprits largely due to bureaucratic obstacles erected by China's government and dishonesty wide spread among China's academia .  On the other hand, China's strength lies in her strong will to invest in infrastructures and production technologies once deemed necessary for the country, while actualization of research products is often hindered by ever change policies resulted fr