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> Do we say "UK developers new method All the time. Just search for "UK/British scientists/engineers invent/develop" (with quotes). There are lots of headlines
by grues-dinner 1y ago
> Do we say "UK developers new method
All the time. Just search for "UK/British scientists/engineers invent/develop" (with quotes). There are lots of headlines like that.
E.g. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05/10/british-scientists-new-treatment-disease-pope-francis/ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05/10/british-scientis...
It's more that you don't really get any headlines out of China that aren't from or laundered through Chinese English-language media first. Whereas in the West, universities send their PR pieces to the Western media directly. No normal journalist is trolling Arxiv or Nature or whatever for juicy papers, and certainly not Chinese-language journals: they're just rehashing the media release, usually uncritically. Which is why you hear about every time someone sneezes near a new battery chemistry that "may revolutionise energy storage" but "needs more research into mass production methods" at MIT but almost never at Tsinghua, unless it's done the rounds first and caused a stir in the domain-specific publications.
- flowerthoughts 1y agoI believe the same, but also, on paper, China is supposedly communistic, so there should only be one "China" to talk of (and, no, I'm not making some subtle statement about anything else.) Perhaps that's the agenda for CGTN in particular.
- adrian_b 1y agoSearching for "UK boffins invent" or "British boffins invent" might get even more matches in headlines :-)
- grues-dinner 1y agoTrue, but mostly from rags like the Sun and Express, which are only loosely allied to the concept of journalism in general, let alone technological reporting. Also the Register, but that is deliberately riffing on the tabloid headline tropes.