China and the U.S. signed a science cooperation agreement this month, an agreement that has been renewed every five years since 1979—yet one expert urges that this time, it’s “inexcusable.”
Many conservatives argue that this decision should have been left to the incoming Trump administration, as the inauguration is now only weeks away. However, that is far from the only objection to the agreement renewal.
Considering the Chinese Communist Party’s role in the COVID-19 pandemic and its “systematic cover-up,” experts in the field of U.S.-China relations are concerned that the CCP will take advantage of the agreement.
“It’s inexcusable that we would sign any kind of finance pact with them—or any kind of agreement—until they were held accountable for their role [in the COVID-19 pandemic].” Erin Walsh, a senior research fellow for national…
