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Tuesday, February 20, 2024Science and Technology Cooperation Agreement • February 6th, 2024
In late-February 2024, the U.S.-China Science and Technology Cooperation Agreement will expire if it is not signed or extended. The first major agreement to be signed by the two governments following the normalization of ties in 1979, the STA was last renewed in 2018 (and temporarily extended in August 2023). In the time since its last renewal, S&T ties have been battered by a raft of decoupling measures as well as probes by the Justice Department and the National Institutes of Health into Beijing’s economic espionage and intellectual property diversion activities. On the other hand, the U.S. and China remain each other’s top scientific partners, with collaborative research between American and Chinese nationals being a standout feature among the most-cited academic papers.
