A group of Republican senators is urging the Biden administration to revoke a freshly renewed science and technology agreement with communist China, citing concerns about the regime’s support for state-led industrial development and military objectives that harm U.S. interests.
On Dec. 13, the United States renewed the Science and Technology Agreement (STA) with China for another five years.
The State Department said that guardrails had been built into the renewal to protect intellectual property and research, and that it addressed a key criticism that the STA was outdated and ineffective in preventing Chinese state-backed theft of U.S. intellectual property….