China News Service, June 12th. Since the outbreak of the new crown epidemic, the United States has continuously tried to plant China on the issue of traceability.
Recently, US President Biden even ordered the intelligence department to launch a so-called investigation on the "laboratory leak theory."
The British "Financial Times" published an article on June 11 that many American scientists are worried that academic cooperation with China will be deeply affected by political disputes or hinder joint response to the global epidemic in the future.
Data map: Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told the Financial Times: “We have been dealing with Chinese scientists for decades, and we have cooperated very well. If this cooperation stops, it will be China, Regret for the United States and the whole world."
The Financial Times pointed out that China and the United States have been cooperating in academic research for decades. On the Nature Index rankings, it is the scientific research relationship with the most academic output in the world.
As China opens up to the outside world and increases investment in scientific research capabilities, the number of joint research between the two countries has "exploded" in the first decade of this century.
The article said that some of the work done in cooperation between the two countries has changed the world.
From 1993 to 1995, a research project led by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in China found that if mothers have been taking folic acid for 28 days before and after pregnancy, the incidence of birth defects in newborns will be relatively low.
Subsequently, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) began to require food manufacturers to add folic acid to staple foods such as bread, flour and rice, thereby reducing the number of birth defects in the United States by more than a thousand newborns each year.
Deborah Seligson, assistant professor of political science at Villanova University and a former official of the U.S. State Department, said: "The United States cannot conduct such research. In the United States, everyone will see a private doctor, and the data is much more confusing. "
Data map: The United States under the epidemic.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Liao Pan
However, the article pointed out that US law enforcement agencies often accused China of using cooperative projects to steal sensitive US technology.
The justice department of the previous administration of the United States launched the so-called "China Action Plan" in 2018, aimed at "removing" the so-called "American researchers who passed on scientific secrets to China."
The article wrote that although the United States initiated this plan, in recent years-even after the epidemic-cooperation between the two countries has continued to deepen.
A report by Caroline Wagner, associate professor of public affairs at Ohio State University, found that in the first three months of 2020, the number of U.S.-China collaborative papers dedicated to the study of the new coronavirus actually increased.
Some have warned that the United States is so concerned about the origin of the new coronavirus that will jeopardize those studies that may help prevent the next outbreak.
Seligson of Villanova University said: “Influenza research shows that virus surveillance is extremely important. The joint study of bat coronaviruses between the United States and China will become more important than less important after the end of the new crown epidemic. "