Posted on 12/15/2024 6:18:41 PM PST by george76
Renewed agreement includes national security guardrails, narrower scope..
Republicans oppose renewal, citing concerns over China's military use..
New deal includes researcher safety, data reciprocity, dispute resolution..
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The United States and China renewed a science cooperation agreement on Friday, the U.S. State Department said, this time with "robust national security guardrails," despite objections from Republicans who argue that the decision should have been left to the incoming Trump administration.
For 45 years, the landmark U.S.-China Science and Technology Agreement (STA) has yielded cooperation across a range of scientific fields, creating a framework for agency exchanges and giving the U.S. access to Chinese data useful in areas such as monitoring earthquakes, weather and influenza.
But the deal, renewed about every five years since it was first signed in 1979, lapsed this year amid mounting concerns that China too often failed to uphold intellectual property provisions or reciprocity in data exchanges.
Even U.S. analysts who had supported renewing the agreement had said it needed to be fundamentally reworked to safeguard U.S. innovation given that China is now a scientific powerhouse in its own right.
Signed just weeks before President-elect Donald Trump's Jan. 20 inauguration
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John Moolenaar, the Republican chair of the House of Representatives' select committee on China, asked Secretary of State Antony Blinken to "immediately suspend efforts" to renew the deal.
"A renewal of the STA in the final days of the administration is a clear attempt to tie the hands of the incoming administration and deny them the opportunity to either leave the agreement or negotiate a better deal for the American people,"
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
Geez, nothing like aiding the enemy.
They told the out of work Americans “why don’t you learn to code?”
Now “Why don’t you learn Mandarin? And how to bow deeply.”
I hate that damn idiot ands his handlers.
TRAITORS!!!
Bring back the gallows.
Yeah the previous cooperation was great eh?
how can this CRAP be allowed?
Just assign all the chinese nationals working in US government labs to the science cooperation with China team an revoke their credentials to all other data. Two problems solved.
What a piece of garbage
Biden is just getting the sold merchandise to the customer while he is still able. He does not want to leave the job without having paid his debts to the Yellow Mob.
talk about tone deaf....
I guess we haven’t had enough technology stolen and devastating epidemics imported yet.
Lucky for Biden and his goons stories like this are buried under UFO/Drone sightings in New Jersey...
Planes carrying parcels fly at night too.
So, why can’t Trump just cancel this crap after he takes the oath? It’s not like it’s a treaty ratified by congress.
This goes beyond just the US and China. Trump has discouraged our allies from tech sharing with China and Biden just underminded Trump’s foreign policy. What’s to prevent our allies from now saying, well if the US isn’t concerned we should go ahead, too?
Trump now has to go to China, and our allies, and explain that Biden is and was incompetent and he will not abide by Biden’s agreement, not a good start.
It only had to go far enough to secure the final payments into the Biden corporate coffers.
Biden completed the deal and the money is received out there somewhere in bogus corporation land.
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