The Dire State of Chinese Science

The Atlantic Wire has a round-up of recent articles about various issues and problems in the scientific field in China:

Despite a strongly pro-science official stance, the state of science in China is not good. That, at least, is the position of a number of science experts and foreign policy journalists who have commented on recent problems plaguing the field. They have multiple concerns: academic fraud, a troubling amount of plagiarism, verbal and physical against critics of the scientific establishment.