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The Unseen Cost: How U.S. Scrutiny of Chinese Researchers Threatens Scientific Collaboration
The Unseen Cost: How U.S. Scrutiny of Chinese Researchers Threatens Scientific Collaboration

Why It Would Be a Dangerous Folly to End US-China Science Pact

China Becomes Russia's Biggest Collaborator After War Decimates Science Ties with the West
China Becomes Russia's Biggest Collaborator After War Decimates Science Ties with the West
US and China Likely to Delay Renewal of Key Science Pact Again

Realistically shaping scientific cooperation with China

Time to Open Its Doors Wider, or Will China Fall into a Middle-technology Trap?
Time to Open Its Doors Wider, or Will China Fall into a Middle-technology Trap?

Drawing Inspiration from Science
More than 10,000 visual works for academic papers across assorted fields over the past four years have made their way to the world's top academic journals.

Global Science is Splintering into Two - and This is Becoming a Problem

Xi-Biden Summit Resumes Research and Technology Collaboration on Climate
China is Blooming and Flourishing with Science and Technology

The Belt and Road Initiative is Boosting Science - the West Must Engage, Not Withdraw

Why China is Turning to Sci-tech in New Action Plan to Boost Belt and Road
China's president unveils a vision for the infrastructure strategy that could help other countries overcome Western restrictions. The Action plan includes harnessing markets and talent of participating countries to power scientific and technological advancement.

Why Chinese Minds Still Bear the Long Shadow of Keju
Keju, China's incredibly difficult civil service test, strengthened the state at the cost of freedom and creativity.

An Age of Disentangled Research?

EU-China: Commission and China Hold Second High-Level Digital Dialogue
EU-China: Commission and China Hold Second High-Level Digital Dialogue
The EU Commission held its second High-level Digital Dialogue with China.

US Extends Science and Technology Agreement with China, Buying Time to Renegotiate the Deal
US Extends Science and Technology Agreement with China, Buying Time to Renegotiate the Deal
The US has extended a historic science and technology agreement (STA) with China by six months, but now needs to renegotiate the deal to mollify concerns that it aids Beijing's technological and military rise and fails to ensure a reciprocal research relationship.
U.S.-China Tensions Could Complicate Effort to Renew Key Research Pact
U.S.-China Tensions Could Complicate Effort to Renew Key Research Pact
Rising tensions between the United States and China could derail the renewal of a 44-year-old agreement on scientific cooperation between the two countries. Last week, U.S. President Joe Biden invited China to spend the next 6 months discussing changes to the broad agreement, first signed in 1979, that enables joint research.
The Party Rules: China's New Central Science and Technology Commission
In March 2023, the Chinese government issued the “Reform Measures of the Party and State Organizations,” which included the establishment of the Central Science and Technology Commission (CSTC).

Chinese Academics Are Becoming a Force for Good Governance

Bans, Flagships, and a Green Pivot: The State of EU-China Research Relations
Bans, Flagships, and a Green Pivot: The State of EU-China Research Relations
China's involvement in Horizon Europe is becoming increasingly restricted to environment-focused and basic research, but is still holding up despite geopolitical headwinds and the disruption to face-to-face contact caused by the pandemic.
What China's Leading Position in Natural Sciences Means for Global Research
What China's Leading Position in Natural Sciences Means for Global Research

China's Use of Formal Science and Technology Agreements As a Tool of Diplomacy
China's Use of Formal Science and Technology Agreements As a Tool of Diplomacy
China's government uses a variety of diplomatic tools to pursue its foreign policy aims including negotiating and signing formal bilateral science and technology.
Science History: Yue Xiong's Great Leap
Yue Xiong is a microbiologist who emigrated to the United States from China to complete his doctorate in 1989. He is the chief scientific officer of pharmaceutical company Cullgen and was a professor of biochemistry and biophysics at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. This article follows Yue Xiong’s quest for education and is based on an interview from the Science History Institute’s oral history archive conducted in 2000 by historian William Van Benschoten.

The Security Crackdown by Canadian Government is Hampering Research Collaboration with China
The Security Crackdown by Canadian Government is Hampering Research Collaboration with China
Nature Index Annual Tables 2023: China Tops Natural-science Table
Nature Index Annual Tables 2023: China Tops Natural-science Table

China's Quantum Leap - Made in Germany
Germany's oldest university hosts many scientists conducting groundbreaking work. Little did they know how they would become entangled in China's quantum military strategy.
