Thursday, March 24, 2011

Who is ahead of the game? - Chinese War for No. 1 Spot

I read an article recently that claimed that that USA is more than No. 1 economy in this world and there is no comparison between China and USA. He cited China's medical system, which is at a stage today that USA passed 30 years back. I agree with his hypothesis and I not only think that US did it 30 years back, but USA is still moving in a big way. Recent disruption in Japan raised questions on USA's capabilities for evacuation in the advent of a similar event. Well, look at China. They have only 11 reactors operating and they are constructing an additional 10 each year. Who is overseeing that?

As you can testify using gazillion trivial examples, that USA has taught innovation and governance lessons to this world. Its core strength is the constant infusion of super-brains from all over the world. USA encourages that brain to think and act ahead of time and build innovative systems when the rest of the world is adopting 10 year old technologies and criticizing most technology evangelists.

This should be noted that total no. of nuclear plants in most Asian countries are less than what USA has in one state. USA has adopted nuclear power years back and controlled it well so far in a much broader geography. We should audit those countries first that have almost no experience and trying to do it in one shot. These countries need to first build the credibility that they "care" for human beings more than their reputation by  relaying correct information and asking for help when needed.

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