{"id":141085,"date":"2025-11-24T02:00:49","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T02:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=141085"},"modified":"2025-11-24T02:00:49","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T02:00:49","slug":"chinas-new-tech-war-warriors-phd-graduates-without-a-thesis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=141085","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s new tech war warriors: PhD graduates without a thesis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChina\u2019s top defence university is piloting a scheme that allows PhD students to graduate with a product or design instead of a thesis in an effort to solve \u201cbottleneck\u201d engineering problems amid the tech race with the United States.<br \/>\nHarbin Institute of Technology (HIT) \u2013 dubbed one of China\u2019s \u201cSeven Sons of National Defence\u201d because of its contributions to defence research and technology \u2013 is exploring new approaches to fostering engineers. These include removing traditional academic papers as a&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3333836\/chinas-new-tech-war-tactics-phd-students-can-now-graduate-product-instead-thesis?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChina\u2019s top defence university is piloting a scheme that allows PhD students to graduate with a product or design instead of a thesis in&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141085"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=141085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}