Meeting Between NASA’s Earth Science Director and Chinese Officials

Stephen Chen, writing for the South China Morning Post:

In mid-July, a US embassy vehicle drove into the guarded compound of the Chinese Academy of Science’s Institute of Atmospheric Physics in central Beijing, carrying Dr Michael Freilich, the director of Nasa’s earth science division, Christopher Blackerby, the agency’s Pacific Rim representative, and other US government staff.

Once inside they spent hours with their Chinese counterparts in a closed-door meeting on TanSat, a Chinese satellite to be launched later this year.

China has recently been opening up to more collaboration with Russia, ESA, and others. I really want to see the United States open up to China before it’s too late and everyone moves on together, without us.