White House requests extension of agreement with China on joint research

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter (right) and Chinese Premier Deng Xiaoping signed the first joint research agreement between the two countries at a White House ceremony in January 1979.CONSOLIDATED PICTURES/AFP via Getty Images President Joe Biden’s administration has given itself 6 months to reach a deal with China to preserve a 44-year-old agreement governing scientific cooperation between the two superpowers. But the rising tensions between the two countries and calls by congressional Republicans for the United States to end cooperation with China will require the White House to walk a political tightrope in renewing what has traditionally been a […]

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