After 1,000 Year Slumber, China Vows to Invent Again

Beijing spends billions on moonshot projects such as teleportation and artificial intelligence, hoping to shake off its reputation as a copycat economy and curb dependence on foreign powers. Some are skeptical China will ever regain the innovative lead it enjoyed more than a millennium ago, when it came up with paper, the printing press, gunpowder and the compass.

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