The rise and fall of U.S.-China scientific collaboration, with Deborah Seligsohn

This week on Sinica, Deborah Seligsohn returns to the show to talk about the sad state of U.S.-China scientific collaboration. As the Science Counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing from 2003 to 2007 — arguably the peak years for collaboration in science — she has ample firsthand experience with the relationship. Debbi, who is now an assistant professor of political science at Villanova University in Philadelphia, relates the U.S. decision to dismantle what was a diverse and fruitful regime of collaboration to the American conception of the relationship as one of teacher and student and sees the American obsession with intellectual property protection as fundamentally misguided and inapplicable to scientific collaboration, which rarely dealt with commercial IP.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.