US-China rivalry: When great power competition endangers global science
US-China rivalry: When great power competition endangers global science
Seventeen years ago, an outbreak of SARS—a disease caused by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-1—emerged in China. Back then, a fruitful partnership emerged between the United States and China, that contributed to the successful control of the outbreak and nurtured the careers of young Chinese virologists and epidemiologists.
This is not the first time that the world has faced the outbreak of a coronavirus which originated in China.
But the consequences have been very different this time around.
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