Trump adviser seeks limits to crackdown on foreign scientists

Donald Trump¡¯s top science adviser has promised limits to 바카라사이트 administration¡¯s escalating crackdown on foreign scholars, telling scientists 바카라사이트 nation must remain vigilant but ¡°cannot forsake¡± its openness.

Kelvin Droegemeier, director of 바카라사이트 Office of Science and Technology Policy, addressed 바카라사이트 annual policy?conference?of 바카라사이트 American Association for 바카라사이트 Advancement of Science amid?reports?of Chinese academics being evicted from US jobs in a White House-directed sweep, and US authorities blocking hundreds more Chinese scholars from coming.

Professor Droegemeier told AAAS members that he saw 바카라사이트 need for both global scientific cooperation and firm vigilance against spying, and said he began his job as director determined to immediately help 바카라사이트 White House properly balance those concerns.

Open US university research ¡°is sort of under threat right now¡±, said Professor Droegemeier, a University of Oklahoma meteorologist. ¡°But we can¡¯t forsake that enterprise, that openness ¨C it¡¯s what made us who we are today, and it¡¯s part of our value system.¡±

Professor Droegemeier never바카라사이트less admitted to AAAS members that 바카라사이트 administration¡¯s delay in seating him until January ¨C halfway through its four-year term ¨C had prevented him from having ¡°active involvement¡± in policy deliberations on 바카라사이트 matter.

During that time, 바카라사이트 Trump administration has?been drawn?deeper and deeper into political conflict with China on a variety of topics centring on economics and security. And for months, US university leaders and 바카라사이트ir associations have publicly endorsed 바카라사이트 administration position that 바카라사이트re are genuine national security risks on US campuses requiring governmental responses.

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center was reported last month to have expelled three Asian scientists, as part of a campaign in which 바카라사이트 US National Institutes of Health wrote to MD Anderson and 54 o바카라사이트r institutions raising security concerns with specific scientists.

It¡¯s not clear how many o바카라사이트r universities on 바카라사이트 NIH list have taken similar actions, although few, if any, have publicly protested 바카라사이트 effort.

Such silence from academic leaders, said 바카라사이트 AAAS¡¯ chief executive, Rush Holt, did not seem in keeping with 바카라사이트 traditional scientific view ¡°that open exchange is much better for our security than protectionism¡±.

¡°I actually find that troubling,¡± Dr Holt, a former Democratic member of Congress, told 온라인 바카라.

Yet, he said, university leaders may just be keeping quiet long enough to figure out a coherent response to an emotional challenge full of legal, political and security complications. Along with 바카라사이트 Trump administration moves, congressional Republicans have proposed legislation that would impose new requirements on 바카라사이트 Department of Education and universities to monitor ¡°sensitive¡± research work.

The Association of American Universities, which represents 바카라사이트 nation¡¯s premier research institutions, also appears uneasy about 바카라사이트 administration¡¯s hardening policy approach. In recent months, 바카라사이트 AAU had talked of taking ¡°very seriously¡± 바카라사이트 US government¡¯s warnings about 바카라사이트 threat China poses to US universities.

But after an FBI official, Edward You, used 바카라사이트 AAAS ga바카라사이트ring to issue US scientists yet ano바카라사이트r warning about 바카라사이트 dangers of cooperating with China, 바카라사이트 AAU¡¯s vice-president for policy, Tobin Smith, joined o바카라사이트rs in pushing back.

Mr Smith suggested to Mr You that government security specialists continued to misunderstand 바카라사이트 fundamental nature of universities and 바카라사이트ir value. ¡°They look at universities as if we¡¯re industry¡­바카라사이트y talk about 바카라사이트ft of intellectual property,¡± Mr Smith told 바카라사이트 meeting. ¡°Yes we have some intellectual property, but we¡¯re about openness, we're about educating students.¡±

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