China on the way up

Alternately, the authoritarian country faces key hurdles in its quest to transform into an innovator, including its lack of free speech. Both arguments were made at a meeting of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, a 12-member panel set up in 2000 to advise the U.S. Congress.
A group of Silicon Valley business leaders and academics gave varied accounts of China's high-technolog...