The current administration in the White House signed a scientific agreement with China
The signing is part of the current US government’s efforts to stabilize US-China relations before President-elect Donald Trump takes office early next year, Reuters reported.
Since it was first signed in 1979, over the past 45 years, the US-China Science and Technology Agreement (STA) has provided bilateral cooperation in many research areas, creating a exchange and allow the US to access China’s data warehouse on earthquake, weather and flu monitoring.
However, the deal stalled last year, when relations between the two countries fell to a record low and after Washington accused Beijing of regularly failing to maintain some of its commitments. such as issues related to intellectual property rights.
Even US analysts who supported signing the STA extension said that it was necessary to fundamentally reevaluate the terms to protect US innovations, in the context that China is now a power. science globally.
With the decision to sign it a few weeks before Mr. Trump took office on January 20, 2025, President Joe Biden’s administration said that the new agreement was narrower in scope compared to previous extensions, and did not expand to emerging technology fields or playing a key role in competition between the two countries.
In a letter sent today (Vietnam time), Congressman John Moolenaar, Chairman of the Special Committee on China in the US House of Representatives, requested Secretary of State Antony Blinken to “immediately stop efforts” to re-sign the agreement. agreement, and let the incoming US administration have the right to decide on the terms. However, efforts to prevent it were unsuccessful.
