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Published online 20 February 2008 | Nature 451, 871 (2008) | doi:10.1038/451871a
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Check your GPS at the border
Foreign researchers fall foul of monitoring restrictions in China.
Foreign researchers working in China are falling foul of laws restricting environmental monitoring and use of Global Positioning System (GPS) equipment. Geologists, botanists, environmental scientists and meteorologists have been affected.
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As a symptom, that is why China is a relatively backward nation, considering its potential. If you take into account scientific progress made in China historically, they should have colonies on Pluto...needless to say, they do not. This boneheaded mentality of Chinese officialdom, across the ages, is a significant reason of the nation unfulfilled potential.