Recently the Agreement between China and USA on Co-operation in Science and Technology has been extended for an additional five years, effective from August 27, 2024
About The U.S.-PRC Science and Technology Agreement (STA)
- The STA provides consistent standards for U.S.-PRC bilateral government-to-government scientific cooperation.
- Signed On: The Agreement was first signed on January 31, 1979, by Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping and U.S. president Jimmy Carter to cooperate on agricultural research and technology.
About the Bilateral S&T Agreements
- A bilateral science and technology (S&T) agreement is a pact between two countries to promote scientific and technological cooperation amongst them
International S&T Cooperation Agreements of India:
- Implementing Agency: The International Cooperation Division of Department of Science and Technology is mandated with the responsibility of negotiating, concluding and implementing Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) Agreements between India and other countries
- International Cooperation in STI is realized through,
- Bilateral Cooperation: India has such bilateral agreements with 83 countries.
- In recent years, the cooperation has strengthened significantly with Australia, Canada, EU, France, Germany, Israel, Japan, Russia, UK and USA
- Example: The agreement between the United States and India, signed in 2005, which established intellectual property right protocols and other provisions for collaborative research
- Multilateral & Regional Cooperation: These engagements are done through cooperation frameworks at inter-governmental level
- India’s S&T Cooperation with EU, ASEAN, BRICS, IBSA, SAARC, BIMSTEC, ASEM, EAS
- Thematic Cooperation: IC Division is partnering in the following International programs,
- International Solar Alliance; Mission Innovation; International AIDS Vaccine Initiative; The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO)
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- Since then the Agreement has been renewed every five years
- Areas: The Agreement overtime has been extended to 40 sub-agreements in different areas, from agriculture to nuclear fusion.
- Governed by: The US-PRC Joint Commission on Scientific and Technological Cooperation
- The U.S. and China each appoint co-chairs and an agency from each country is nominated as the ‘executive agent’.
- Renewed with Amendments:
- Safety and Accountability Provisions: It has measures to enhance provisions for researcher safety and data reciprocity to assuage US concerns over the export of certain technologies to China
- Narrowing Scope: The collaboration will be confined to the intergovernmental level, to basic research, and to previously identified themes of mutual benefit (including, for example, earthquake studies and basic health) as of now.
- No Cooperation: Henceforth, No cooperation in critical and emerging technologies between the countries.
- Area Focus: The accord focuses on essential weather, oceanography, and geology research and will support U.S. agencies working on issues from tsunami warnings and influenza data to air quality and pest management.
- Importance:
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- For China: The agreement provides China access to American basic research which will help the country to plug a crucial gap within its science and technology industrial base and allow Beijing to maintain its technological competition with Washington.
- For the USA: The amended agreement will address Washington’s concerns over Beijing’s efforts to modernize its military through economic and scientific espionage by limiting joint research on critical and emerging technologies.
December 26, 2024
