For over 40 years, a landmark agreement between the United States and China has yielded cooperation across a range of scientific and technical fields, a powerful sign that the rivals could set aside their disputes and work together.
Now with bilateral relations in their worst state in decades, a debate is underway within the U.S. government about whether to let the U.S.-China Science and Technology Agreement expire later this year, three officials familiar with the discussions said.
Those exchanges helped China grow into a technology and military powerhouse, but concerns about Beijing's theft of U.S. scientific and commercial achievements have prompted questions about whether the agreement – set to expire on Aug. 27 – should continue. "Extending the Science and Technology Agreement between the U.S. and China would only further jeopardize our research and intellectual property," said Representative Mike Gallagher, the Republican chair of a congressional select committee on China. "The administration must let this outdated agreement expire."
"As far as we know, the U.S. side is still conducting an internal review on the renewal of the agreement," embassy spokesperson Liu Pengyu said, adding that both sides could consider adjustments to the original deal. "China friend or China foe, the U.S. needs access to China to understand what's happening on the ground," said Denis Simon, a professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who studies technology strategy in China, adding that it was important for the U.S. to negotiate a fundamentally new agreement.
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