China submersible breaks 7,000-metre mark

Hop Sing wrote:

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Only if they keep copying from the West. What happens when they run out of things to copy and Chinamen have to invent and innovate by themselves? LOL... Name one thing Chinamen can do by themselves without the outsiders teaching them how? chinamen even had to copy communism!! ha ha ha.. Chinamen can't even invent their own bad idea!!! BTW, Cambodian Chink, did you know Red China sent the Khmer Rouge all the guns and ammo so they could slaughter other Cambodian Chinks in Cambodia?? Red China was the only supporter of the Khmer Rouge!! ha ha ha ha.. So how many Cambodian Chinks died because of Khmer Rouge using Red China's AKs?

I also knew that in the 80s the USA gave the Khmer rouge weapons bought from EU to kill other Khmer and Vietnamese. The Evil America will always be the evil one. China gave guns to Pol Pot to protect themselves from the VC, you stupid idiot! America gave guns to the Pol Pot in the 80s to kill more Khmer & Chinese ethnic alike. You are too stupid and too ignorant to notice that.

old china wrote:

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In 2009 China file 600,000 patents. That is expected to increase to 2,000,000 by 2015.

Got proof of that?

It seems extrmely unlikely for 2 reasons:

1) A country doesn't get 3X as innovative in 6 years.

2) China is the worst nation on earth for infringing intellectual property. If patent laws aren't enforced, why would people pay to patent things?

I can read wrote:

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Got proof of that?
It seems extrmely unlikely for 2 reasons:
1) A country doesn't get 3X as innovative in 6 years.
2) China is the worst nation on earth for infringing intellectual property. If patent laws aren't enforced, why would people pay to patent things?

No I don't have proof - I am not a Patents Office. Try using Yahoo and doing a search for 'Chinese Patents' as I did and judge for yourself. But I agree, the figures looked high but it seemed a creditable source without any vested interest and, it goes without saying, that I personally haven't got a clue as to what is reasonable or not. However, even if the figures should be a fraction of what was published, it would appear to make a nonsense of the suggestion that China hasn't invented anything since the days of the Yellow Emperor.

China is a country with one of the largest populations in the world. It is not unreasonable if they have decided to beat/match the West at taking out patents by taking out patents on tooth picks and chop sticks (or whatever) and the like or anything else they fancy because patenting anything that isn't tied down seems to be very profitable for western companies regardless of the skill (or lack of it) that it took to develop the designs. As for the rate of acceleration, you need to compare it with patent levels in other countries to see if it looks reasonable or not. After all, this is China and things Change VERY fast when they set their minds to it.

Oh, patents are being enforce here, something else you might have found out with the use of a search engine - something like 40,000 claims of infringement per year are being submitted. I don't know what the outcome was though but you aren't going to waste money going to court if you have no chance of success.