Japan vs. China in technology?

As we can see Japan makes better cars and robots and other electronic stuff like cellphones and tvs, but China makes overall better computers (lenovo beats toshiba, sony, etc). Also, China makes advanced weapons likes fighters, nukes, and ICBMS. So overall, which country is more technologically advanced?

China has probably the best military technology in the world but Japan has the best technology used for common citizens in the future.

China may be backward in new inventions and sophisticated innovations without the reverse-engineering, but that is mostly due to its long years of isolation from the capitalist world.

But now since it has joined the competiton on equal terms (actually relatively favorable terms) it’s only a matter of time before they catch up.

The market remaining favorable, China has the most powerful resource on earth; man/brain power 1.3 billioin strong and counting.

A big issue in China is all of the imitation products they manufacture. There is no innovation..

References: : 
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/05/12/opinion/edchoate.php

Study Shows China as World Technology Leader

Technology indicators show China ahead of the U.S. in technological standing

Atlanta (January 24, 2008) —A new study of worldwide technological competitiveness suggests China may soon rival the United States as the principal driver of the world’s economy – a position the U.S. has held since the end of World War II. If that happens, it will mark the first time in nearly a century that two nations have competed for leadership as equals.

The study’s indicators predict that China will soon pass the United States in the critical ability to develop basic science and technology, turn those developments into products and services – and then market them to the world. Though China is often seen as just a low-cost producer of manufactured goods, the new “High Tech Indicators” study done by researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology clearly shows that the Asian powerhouse has much bigger aspirations.

Georgia Tech’s “High Tech Indicators” study ranks 33 nations relative to one another on “technological standing,” an output factor that indicates each nation’s recent success in exporting high technology products. Four major input factors help build future technological standing: national orientation toward technological competitiveness, socioeconomic infrastructure, technological infrastructure and productive capacity.

China has been dramatically improving its input scores, which portends even stronger technological competitiveness in the future.

References : 

http://www.gatech.edu/newsroom/release.html?id=1682