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To innovate, China needs more than standards

By Guy de Jonquières

Published: July 12 2006 19:56 | Last updated: July 12 2006 19:56

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When China moved to impose a national standard for wireless communications two years ago, it swiftly provoked a high-level diplomatic fracas. Objecting that the plan would close the country’s market to Intel, the leading maker of wireless chips, the US threatened action in the World Trade Organisation.

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