The June 2005 issue of IEEE Spectrum is filled with articles about the technology revolution in China. Most of the feature articles are publicly available; the editorial column, "Spectral Lines", entitled All the Tech in China, is available only to members, but here are two excerpts I wanted to highlight:

China today is the dragon in the living room of the world market. And everyone in that market has to come to terms with it.

This year China will graduate more than 300,000 engineers, so many that it has a glut of technological talent. All the current members of China's Politburo Standing Committee, the highest tier in the Communist Party, are engineers. Can the United States make a similar claim about its political leadership or the size of its technology workforce?