In the past few months I’ve heard from both Eric Drexler and from Thomas Friedman’s The World is Flat that the Chinese government is run by engineers. This sounds important enough that I checked for confirmation on the web.
this page says “Every member of the Politburo in China is an engineer.”
An article titled Made in China: The Revenge of the Nerds reinforces the point.
This must imply some interesting things about the policies of the Chinese government. I wish I could predict whether this is the result of forces that will persist for a significant time or whether (as this page hints) it was a one-time result of Deng Xiaoping’s personality.
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I suspect every memeber of the politburo standing committee (the core group) is an engineer, but not every single member of the politburo. Members of the former are listed at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politburo_Standing_Committee_of_the_Communist_Party_of_China
Very curious in any case.