{"id":586442,"date":"2026-08-07T23:04:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T23:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/586442\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T23:04:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T23:04:19","slug":"china-overtakes-us-to-lead-global-rd-spending-hitting-615bn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/586442\/","title":{"rendered":"China overtakes US to lead global R&#038;D spending, hitting $615bn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/business\/science\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Science<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Corporate, university expenditures for 2024 include computers, electronics<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/2\/5.jpeg\" alt=\"20260807N China spending\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">China&#8217;s jump in R&amp;D spending was driven by corporate investment in computers and electronics. \u00a9 Reuters<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; China has surpassed the U.S. to become the world leader in R&amp;D spending by companies and universities, new Japanese data shows, as Beijing works to counter Washington&#8217;s export restrictions on chips by accelerating development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Science Corporate, university expenditures for 2024 include computers, electronics China&#8217;s jump in R&amp;D spending was driven by corporate&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":586443,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[247549,72,114,113,6246,113547,61,60,14353,40194,585,4996,90],"class_list":["post-586442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-615bn","tag-business","tag-china","tag-economy","tag-global","tag-hitting","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-lead","tag-overtakes","tag-rd","tag-spending","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=586442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/586443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}