"I am relieved to see this pact renewal," says Duan Yibing, a science-policy researcher at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, who hopes the pact will do what it's designed to: promote collaboration in basic research between the two countries.
"It appears they scrubbed everything and started from scratch," says Caroline Wagner, a specialist in science, technology and international affairs at The Ohio State University in Columbus. The narrow focus "seems appropriate" given China's new status as a scientific and economic power. "The United States has recognized its relationship with China is now more symmetrical" than when the original agreement was signed 45 years ago, she says.
The agreement, "demonstrates a pragmatic, if constrained, approach to maintaining scientific collaboration amid geopolitical rivalry," says Marina Zhang, an innovation researcher who focuses on China at the University of Technology Sydney in Australia.
The original pact was forged in 1979 to thaw diplomatic relations between China and the United States. It is normally renewed every five years, but it expired on 27 August last year amid rising tensions.
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