Unfolding China's smartphone re-innovation strategy

Contrary to the idiomatic metaphor 'Don't Reinvent the Wheel', China deliberately spelled out a re-invention strategy in its ambitious Science and Technology (S&T) Development Plan. For the full-fledged construction of a well-to-do society, the 16th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party commissioned the formulation of the national medium-and-long-term programme....

A new cold war emerging?

On July 17, 1945 the trial of the atomic bomb in the Mexican desert was successful. No doubt, president Truman of the USA and British Prime Minister Churchill were jubilant. According to Churchill, the decision to drop the bombs on Japan was taken by them at Potsdam. Two atomic bombs...