Congressional paranoia creates technical hitch that leaves sci-tech agreement in limbo: China Daily editorial
China DailyThe six-month extension the United States government gave to the China-US Science and Technology Cooperation Agreement expired on Tuesday. Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning told the media on Tuesday the Chinese side "has kept communicating" with the US side on the matter. The US State Department said it is negotiating to "amend, extend, and strengthen protections within" the agreement, but declined to confirm the US would extend the deal. Given the present state of overall bilateral relations, and the resistance the 45-year-old agreement faces in the US Congress, any decision on either renewal or just another extension will not come easily. Signed in 1979 by US President Jimmy Carter and Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping, the science and technology cooperation agreement has served both sides well as an umbrella framework for bilateral cooperation in such fields as agriculture, energy, space, health, environment, Earth sciences and engineering, in addition to educational and academic exchanges.
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