Biden administration inks renewed science cooperation deal with China; Republicans cry foul

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Posted on 12/15/2024 6:18:41 PM PST by george76

Renewed agreement includes national security guardrails, narrower scope..

Republicans oppose renewal, citing concerns over China's military use..

New deal includes researcher safety, data reciprocity, dispute resolution..

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The United States and China renewed a science cooperation agreement on Friday, the U.S. State Department said, this time with "robust national security guardrails," despite objections from Republicans who argue that the decision should have been left to the incoming Trump administration.

For 45 years, the landmark U.S.-China Science and Technology Agreement (STA) has yielded cooperation across a range of scientific fields, creating a framework for agency exchanges and giving the U.S. access to Chinese data useful in areas such as monitoring earthquakes, weather and influenza.

But the deal, renewed about every five years since it was first signed in 1979, lapsed this year amid mounting concerns that China too often failed to uphold intellectual property provisions or reciprocity in data exchanges.

Even U.S. analysts who had supported renewing the agreement had said it needed to be fundamentally reworked to safeguard U.S. innovation given that China is now a scientific powerhouse in its own right.

Signed just weeks before President-elect Donald Trump's Jan. 20 inauguration

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John Moolenaar, the Republican chair of the House of Representatives' select committee on China, asked Secretary of State Antony Blinken to "immediately suspend efforts" to renew the deal.

"A renewal of the STA in the final days of the administration is a clear attempt to tie the hands of the incoming administration and deny them the opportunity to either leave the agreement or negotiate a better deal for the American people,"

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