Word: americanizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Shedding the xenophobia that raged during the Cultural Revolution, Peking is looking to the non-Communist world for the scientific know-how once provided by the U.S.S.R. American oilmen are aiding in a search for petroleum off the South China coast. The Chinese are talking of enlisting U.S. experts for tapping the energy resources of great rivers like the Yangtze (at present China uses only 2% of its hydroelectric potential). Peking also wants to make direct purchases, especially of computer hardware...
...moment though, the Chinese seem especially interested in American brainpower. At almost every stop on the tour-at a seismological observatory outside Peking, at an electronics plant in Changzhou (Changchow), at hospitals in Shanghai, in scenic Hangzhou (Hangchow) and at fisheries near Canton-we were told of leading American scientists who had already been there...
...Chinese are obviously eager to learn from their new American friends. Host scientists urged the visiting journalists to make critical comments about their efforts. But, as one explained, "We cannot use all your advanced ideas and techniques. We must adapt them to Chinese skills and economic conditions...
...beam experimental laser device to produce power from thermonuclear fusion. Blessed with an abundance of the elements called rare earths, the Chinese are also becoming increasingly skilled at extracting them and putting them to work in many ways, for example, as catalysts in petroleum refining. The visiting American specialists found one area where the U.S. could learn from the Chinese: the production of oil from shale...
...Chinese are also exploring more esoteric realms. In Peking American-educated veterans of China's nuclear weapons program told of their plans to build by the mid-1980s a 50 billion-electron-volt accelerator for research in particle physics. Scientists are building two gravity-wave detectors, one in Peking, the other at Canton's Sun Yat-sen University...