Global Science and the China Split | Ithaka S+R

"As tensions grow and elements of a split emerge, the impacts on how science is practiced are becoming more clear. The impacts will potentially threaten some aspects of scientific openness, the growing open science movement, international collaboration, and scientific migration.

Scientific openness—the practice of sharing scientific findings broadly—enables the exchange and critique through which theories and experiments become accepted as part of the body of scientific knowledge. Scientific openness drives efficiency by avoiding unnecessary duplication of effort and enables research collaboration. Scientific openness fosters public trust. At the same time, secrecy can also be important to protect research subjects, trade secrets, national security, or other interests.[5] ...

Scientific openness, international collaboration, open science, and scientific migration have been at the heart of much policy and funding among liberal and democratic countries. These policies have enabled a kind of scientific globalism and certainly have offered a powerful form of resistance to scientific nationalism. What might a geopolitical split with China mean for science? ..."