Dire warnings about China voiced at GAMBICA conference are echoed in Japan and Germany

虽然大部分GAMBICA成员都从2020年的初始低点大幅反弹，并似乎预计好日子至少会持续到2022年的大部分时间，但在3月份的GAMBICA年度实验室会议上，发言者预测乌云即将来临。

Star speaker, Anand Menon, focussed on the current and future impacts of Brexit on trade, and political commentator, John Arnold, offered a chilling prediction. Drawing conclusions from the speed and severity of the impact of sanctions on those trading with Russia, he directed the thoughts of delegates to China.
“中国想成为超级大国;这就要求中国成为一个文化超级大国——中国相信自己已经是;一个经济超级大国——中国相信自己已经做到了这一点;以及一个军事超级大国——中国认为这一点还有待证明。
“High level commentators in China have repeatedly referred to Taiwan as belonging to China. Within the next ten years I believe China will take Taiwan by military means.
“It is very unlikely that we will start firing missiles at China but in this scenario it is inevitable that we will impose sanctions. As we have seen from Russia, sanctions will have a major impact on anyone exporting to China, and possibly a greater impact still on anyone importing from China.
“如果你不能从中国购买零部件，对你的业务会有什么影响?”他问与会代表。
John went on to explain that the UK Government has serious concerns about the extent to which China has infiltrated UK economic life. “The era of globalisation is about to come to an end” he predicted.
The increasing tensions with China were also raised at a recent meeting of the lab industry associations from Europe, Japan and the US.
日本分析仪器制造商协会的发言人注意到，日本媒体对中国大陆和台湾之间紧张关系的讨论越来越多。“我们不知道会发生什么，也不知道会有什么影响，”他们说，“而且朝鲜每天都在做疯狂的事情。”
由于台湾是日本第四大出口市场，中国吞并台湾肯定会损害日本的经济安全。日本首相岸田文雄(Fumio Kishida)认为，“威权主义和民主主义冲突的前线是亚洲，尤其是台湾”，日本“除了与我们的盟友美国合作之外，不能做出回应”。
The Chairman of German industry body, Spectaris, admitted: “There is now talk in Germany about trying to become independent from China because in the long-term we see some problems because of the likely war followed by sanctions which would have a very serious impact on all our economies.
“我们都在寻找新的商品和电子产品来源，但这很困难，尤其是在微电子领域。我们正在寻找日本和韩国，试图找到那些供应链不依赖中国的国家。”
He went on to suggest that in Germany, the view is that Russia will emerge from the current war in Ukraine as a “third world” country.
另一个有趣的现象是，欧盟最近向台湾进行了一场外来投资路演，希望在台湾企业减少对中国大陆投资、并寻求将工厂迁至其他国家以避免受到中国大陆进口禁令的影响之际，从中获利。

But there is opportunity in sustainability

Two of the best-received presentations at the GAMBICA Lab Conference were on sustainability. Alan Rance, whose company, Midas Pattern, makes enclosures for chromatography equipment, explained how by just taking the obvious steps he had moved his company to net zero carbon emissions and improved its bottom line significantly.
除了重复使用他所有的包装之外，艾伦指出，现在是在你的屋顶上安装光伏电池的好时机。在当前的能源价格下，投资回报将显著降低，而供应安全的好处将被放大。
Martin Farley, who developed the laboratory efficiency assessment framework (LEAF) to promote lab sustainability, highlighted some of the great work already being done by labs in terms of their buildings, their equipment purchasing and their operational use. As well as providing a standard by which labs can be judged, LEAF focuses on areas such as ventilation, equipment, procurement and waste, samples and chemicals and research quality.
马丁呼吁采购商集中订购和物流，标准化招标规范，组织和管理新流程，以提供可持续发展优势。他还着重介绍了GAMBICA成员的实验室产品，包括从GS生物技术公司(GS Biotech)购买的Grenova尖端洗衣机，并强调了Starlab和Fisher Scientific正在进行的实验室塑料回收计划的工作。
GAMBICA实验室委员会成立了一个可持续发展委员会，其目标是帮助成员实现零排放。GAMBICA的新成员“我的绿色实验室”已获得联合国“零排放竞赛”中期目标的认证，该目标规定，到2030年，95%的研究实验室应获得“我的绿色实验室”的认证。

The future of lab instruments

Waters have joined with other prominent GAMBICA members Shimadzu, Agilent, and Thermo Fisher to develop a standard interface for chromatography and spectrometry equipment.
“Today’s chromatography equipment,” said Matt Wherry of Waters speaking at the GAMBICA conference, “uses a patchwork of older interfaces to communicate with data systems. These interfaces were not designed for the modern era and modern IT infrastructure and require too much coordination among vendors leading to delays in instrument support. The situation is dissatisfying for all and if vendors weren’t busy working on integration, we could be solving ‘real’ customer problems.
“如果我们允许其他人编写这个标准，那么解决这个问题的标准就不太可能适用于我们的目的，所以供应商需要采取主动。”这一想法促成了Waters、Agilent、Thermo Fisher和Shimadzu财团发起的通用分析仪器系统集成(CAISI)项目。
Matt还提醒与会代表注意德国的一个类似倡议，实验室和分析设备标准组织(LADS)正在为更广泛的实验室设备开发界面。这两个计划正在密切合作，但Matt表示，CAISI计划高度关注交付，并计划在5年内拥有一个可操作的接口。它将受到严格的管理，并对范围蔓延保持警惕，因为Matt不希望CAISI重蹈许多其他标准的覆辙。

If you would like more information about the GAMBICA conference, or about membership, email Jacqueline.balian@gambica.org.uk