Commentary
The U.S. Select Committee on the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) sent a letter on June 27 to Secretary of State Antony Blinken, calling on the Biden administration not to renew the Science and Technology Agreement (STA) with communist China, which is set to expire on Aug. 27 on the grounds that the CCP is using U.S. technological help and exchanges to bolster Chinese military capabilities.
The letter stated: “The United States must stop fueling its own destruction. Letting the STA expire is a good first step.”
According to a State Department report on the STA, numerous U.S. government agencies have funded research or cooperated with Chinese entities, including the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Commerce, the Department of Defense, the Department of Energy, the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of the Interior, the Department of State, the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and the Office of Science and Technology Policy. Under the STA, in 2018, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration cooperated with China’s Meteorological Administration to launch balloons used to study the atmosphere….