On: Philips and the death of Europe's last electronics giant [video]

[arp242]

> Manufacturing and innovation in Western countries are now in a state of malaise and they're being quickly overtaken by Asian countries such as China. Like it or not, the West generally is in a state of decline.

China is pretty good at manufacturing, and pretty terrible at everything else. Research and innovation in particular are very much China's weak point.

[JPLeRouzic → arp242]

> "* Research and innovation in particular are very much China's weak point.*"

Then why in most scientific papers often at least one author has a name of 'Han' origin?

[pb7 → JPLeRouzic]

Because they have 1.4B people? China != people of Chinese ethnicity. Your name doesn’t change when you immigrate somewhere.