Science suffers collateral damage as US, China tensions rise 0 SHARES Share it! The initiative offers non-Chinese, and Chinese working abroad, high pay to deliver top-level technology to China. Beijing has committed billions of dollars in recent years to narrow China’s science and technology gap with the United States, Cao said. China is by far the biggest source of international students and scholars on US campuses, with 360,000 attending last year. Since it was launched in 2008, the programme has attracted more than 7,000 Chinese and foreign researchers to China — mostly from the US — according to its website.

Source: Manila Bulletin June 18, 2019 05:03 UTC