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What Happens to Global Science If the United States and China Quit Collaborating?

Over the last 40 years, international scientific collaboration between the United States and China in particular has increased global research productivity. But more recently, as the US policy community has become focused on competitiveness and security, these collaborations have begun to decrease, and many Chinese scientists and students are now leaving the country.

E. William Colglazier argues in Issues in Science and Technology that it is in the national interest for US scientists to collaborate with the best scientists in the world, regardless of where they reside—however, “politics remains a more powerful force than science.” How is the science community experiencing and responding to these changes? In the long term, how will this period of US-China disentanglement reshape international scientific partnerships and collaboration? And what will this realignment mean for the promise of the global scientific enterprise itself?

On August 17 at 2:00 p.m. ET, join us to talk about how US-China competition is changing the trajectory of global scientific collaboration and engagement.

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Panelists

    • E. William Colglazier, editor-in-chief of Science & Diplomacy at the American Association for the Advancement of Science
    • Sylvia Schwaag Serger, professor in the Department of Economic History at Lund University
    • Ann Chih Lin, associate professor of public policy at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and director of the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies at the University of Michigan
    • Bruce Guile, project lead at the Applied Research Consortia (ARC) Project
    • Moderated by Christina Lu, staff writer at Foreign Policy