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Are United States and Chinese Economic Policies Just the Same?

 A comment on the public policy of centralized economic development meeting-between-the-united-states-and-china-on-trade-(public domain) I just spent several weeks navigating the SBIR.STTR grant support system as an uninvited outsider, which is to say as one deemed at the outset not qualified for support. The general assumption appears to be that the applicant will accept the adjudication from the first support organization approached and be done with it. I, however, decided to proceed to see if I could find an open door where I could apply on my own. Eventually through persistence I returned to my original starting point and this time passed through the door to have confirmed what I had already concluded. Along the way I found a place where a public comment on policy can be submitted. Whether the commentary actually gets to anyone of significance, is not known but the following is written with such a purpose in mind. This commentary is on the practicing policy of SBIR STTR grants, a