Wednesday, February 02, 2011 2:16 AM

China's "Borg Strategy" Seeks to Assimilate all Known Technology; US Seeks to Waste $Trillions More in Afghanistan

While the US is hell-bent on meddling (at tremendous expense) in the affairs of at least 140 countries where its troops are stationed, China seeks to assimilate technology at little expense.

The Wall Street Journal puts it much more politely. Please consider U.S. Firms, China Are Locked in Major War Over Technology. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142 ... 12040.html

China's bureaucrats have been rolling out an array of interlocking regulations and state spending aimed at making their country a global technology powerhouse by 2020.

To hear U.S. business executives describe it, Beijing's mammoth new industrial policy is like the Borg in "Star Trek"—an enormous organic machine assimilating everything in its path, in this case the inventions of other nations. Notably, China's road map, which is enshrined in the "National Medium- and Long-Term Plan for the Development of Science and Technology (2006-2020)," talks in those terms. China will build its dominance by "enhancing original innovation through co-innovation and re-innovation based on the assimilation of imported technologies."

The 44-page report, "China's Drive for 'Indigenous Innovation': A Web of Industrial Policies" maps the complex set of new initiatives that foreign companies face.

It also sent up a warning flare over the broader business community. Representatives of companies as diverse as IBM, Praxair, Microsoft, Alstrom, Motorola, Cisco, Corning and Caterpillar got briefings. Chinese academics also lined up. And GE distributed the report to its senior management.

China's "Borg Strategy"

Inquiring minds are reading China's Drive for 'Indigenous Innovation': A Web of Industrial Policies for details of China's Borg-like strategy. Here are some snips from the 45 page PDF. http://www.uschamber.com/sites/default/ ... port_0.pdf

Indigenous innovation is a massive and complicated plan to turn the Chinese economy into a technology powerhouse by 2020 and a global leader by 2050. The landmark document that launched the campaign carries the bureaucratic title “The National Medium- and Long-Term Plan for the Development of Science and Technology (2006-2020)â€