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Notes added 10/21/2013: see also another ECONOMIST cover sotry

http://blog.sciencenet.cn/home.php?mod=space&uid=1565&do=blog&id=734875 

The  September 28 - October4, 2013 issue of the wide-circulation international news magazine,  The Economist, in her China section (pp. 39-40) has a lead story entitled “looks good on paper” which describes  the flawed system of Chinese science administration that leads to all kinds of corrupt and deviant practices  in Chinese  academia and S&T community . The article correctly laid the blame on the system  of science administration for providing the weird incentives for such practices (even though the system may  be established with good intentions). While these problems are well  known to ScienceNet readers,  they are heretofore primarily a national problem and perhaps to only a narrow  circle of  the world wide scientific community. But with this publication in The Economists,  the knowledge now becomes known to the general world wide public. For the majority of honest Chinese scholars and science workers, it is they who must bear the burden of suspicion and humiliation when they interact internationally for years to come. I feel sorry for them.

Note added 10/21/2013 See also the article Another ECONOMIST cover story http://blog.sciencenet.cn/home.php?mod=space&uid=1565&do=blog&id=734875.