tag: international scholarship

Many of the world’s best researchers work at universities in the United States. While they contribute to the US research enterprise, these researchers also often embody hybrid identities: their training, professional activities, and individual and collaborative work cross national, institutional, and disciplinary borders. However, the past several presidential administrations have enacted federal policies driven by concerns over national security and economic competitiveness that have restricted the flow of researchers and research outputs across national borders. Since 2018, heightened scrutiny, tightened…

On September 1, 2022, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) opened a new “smart green” campus in Guangzhou, China. Described as “heralding the university of the future” and designed for climate emergencies, this campus represents a significant milestone in HKUST’s strategic vision as it partners with the original HKUST campus located just across the border in Clear Bay, Hong Kong.

The rising geopolitical tensions between the United States and China are prompting both nations to restrict exports of technologies with military applications or in areas with significant economic value. Increasingly, these restrictions are calling international commitments to the open sharing of academic research into question. Last month, the Chinese government announced new restrictions on international access to the most important academic database in China, the China National Knowledge Infrastructure Database (CNKI) (中国知网). For researchers in the US the CNKI is…