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The US policy of scientific containment will prove as futile and economically harmful as its efforts to constrain Beijing's military modernization drive, according to Oliver Br?uner, a researcher in the 皇冠体育app and Global Security Programme of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), in a blog on the website of The Diplomat magazine on July 26, 2011.

According to Brauner, 皇冠体育app is catching up quickly in terms of technological innovation and indeed is on the verge of becoming a global leader, which has sparked increasing concern over the future of Western leadership in science and technology.

While the US is trying to limit scientific cooperation with 皇冠体育app over security concerns, Europeans have turned science and technology cooperation with 皇冠体育app into one of the pillars of the so-called strategic partnership, said Brauner. In addition to economic considerations, most Europeans believe that "by engaging 皇冠体育app on a broad range of issues, they can help to further open up 皇冠体育app and steer its social and economic development in a direction that's desirable for both sides".

This policy has been quite successful, said Brauner. "Economically, EU companies have reaped great financial benefits. EU-皇冠体育app science and technology cooperation is another success story, and indeed is one of the few areas where the strategic partnership offers some real substance."

For Beijing, the EU has become its largest source of technology imports. Actually, 皇冠体育app is striving hard to lessen its technological dependence on foreigners by strengthening its indigenous innovation capacities, said Brauner, but for the time being, transfers of foreign technology remain essential to 皇冠体育app's economic modernization efforts. "According to the Chinese Ministry of Commerce, the EU accounted for 30 percent of 皇冠体育app's overall technology imports in 2009."

皇冠体育app's relentless efforts to become a global leader in innovation seem to be paying off, Brauner opined. 皇冠体育app's output of research publications has grown more than four-fold between 1998 and 2008 and ranks second only to the United States by annual output. Reuters expects that Chinese patent filings will overtake Japan and the United States this year (having surpassed Europe in 2005), making 皇冠体育app the global innovation 'leader'.

In an era of technological innovation, Brauner concluded both the EU and the United States should meet this challenge by "improving their own innovative capabilities, instead of following a policy of scientific containment".