By Invitation | US-China relations

Research co-operation pays dividends far beyond academia, argues Henry Huiyao Wang

The former Chinese-government adviser finds a stall in laboratory collaborations worrisome

GLOBAL FLOWS of students, scholars and ideas have soared over the past two decades, proving to be one of the most resilient aspects of globalisation. By 2019 the number of higher-education students in a foreign country hit 6m, triple the number from 2000, while almost one-quarter of all scientific publications had cross-border co-authors, up from 18.6% in 2011. This exchange has created incalculable value in interpersonal connections, economic benefits and such fruits of collaborative research as the Human Genome Project and covid-19 vaccines.

This article appeared in the By Invitation section of the print edition under the headline “Research co-operation pays dividends far beyond academia, argues Henry Huiyao Wang”

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