"An agreement is getting near. They are working out the final language," says Denis Simon, a non-resident fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, a foreign policy think-tank in Washington DC.
"China is willing to renew the US-China pact to facilitate bilateral collaboration," says Tang Li, a science- and innovation-policy researcher at Fudan University in Shanghai, China.
Despite tensions between the two countries, signs point to a renewal - but the pact is likely to become more limited in scope due to various factors.
The pact, while not funding-providing, is crucial for building strong research collaborations between the US and China, according to researchers from both nations.
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