US lawmakers demand to scrap China science agreement renewal deal

Chairman John Moolenaar of the Select Committee of Chinese Communist Party (SCCP) and his colleagues have strongly criticised the Joe Biden administration's decision to extend the US-China Science and Technology Agreement (STA) for another five years.

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The extension comes despite repeated requests from Congress to either suspend the agreement or implement stronger safeguards to protect US national security, human rights, and intellectual property. In a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Moolenaar and his fellow lawmakers argue that renewing the STA in the final days of the current administration represents an effort to "tie the hands" of the incoming administration. They assert that this move would limit the new leadership's ability to eithe