Editor's Summary
2 October 2008
TWAS Beijing 1987: China steps out
By 1987, China's rulers had identified science and technology as key to their plans to relaunch China as a global power. The Second General Conference of the Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), held in Beijing in September 1987, was to be the 'coming out party'. Mohamed Hassan looks back on Beijing 1987 — and on Beijing 2003, when TWAS returned to celebrate its twentieth anniversary, and China was well and truly out in the world.
Editorial: An end to secrecy
China's continuing openness on HIV is a welcome development and a model for other nations.
doi:10.1038/455566a
Essay: Beijing 1987: China's coming-out party
Two decades ago, Deng Xiaoping welcomed nations to an international meeting in Beijing. Mohamed Hassan recalls how China's leaders set out their plans for the nation to rejoin the world's scientific elite.
Mohamed Hassan
doi:10.1038/455598a
