It is time for someone to take a contrarian, positive-sum view about the current situation regarding United States-China science and technology (S&T) cooperation and academic exchanges.
The S&T cooperation and educational and scholarly exchanges components of the US-China relationship were first consummated during the 1978-79 period as China was just re-opening to the outside world. Early exchanges were limited in number as were the numbers of Chinese students and scholars coming to the US.
