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Introduction

On January 31, 1979, in a move marking a new era in international relations, U.S. President Jimmy Carter and Deng Xiaoping of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) signed the U.S.-China Science and Technology Cooperation Agreement (STA). This first major agreement between the two gove…