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Chinese collaborations with international partners across the globe, and in Europe in particular, have continued to rise. On the domestic front, China’s research output has more than doubled over the past decade: it surpassed the United States as the largest producer of research papers in 2020 and is now poised to take the lead in terms of citations.

Collaborations between China and Europe have continued to rise, meanwhile, and are now on par with those between the United States and the European Union in terms of citations.

The larger danger is that the global science enterprise itself will suffer if barriers to collaboration and the sharing of information are erected in the name of national security and economic competitiveness, says Caroline Wagner, a research-policy specialist at the Ohio State University in Columbus.