The US is by far the world's biggest spender: It poured 2.8 percent of its gross domestic product into R&D in 2015, when China's spending was 2.1 percent, according to the 2015 UIS Innovation Data Collection, the latest survey released by the UNESCO Institute of Statistics in April.
The UK-China CEO Council, a platform for exchange and cooperation for businesses in the two countries, held its first meeting in Beijing on Wednesday. It is composed of representative companies in industries including finance, energy, automobiles, telecommunications, transportation and medicine. Fifteen companies are from China and 16 are from the UK. They include the Bank of China, Huawei Technologies, BP and Jaguar Land Rover.
The United States has imposed tariffs on Chinese goods valued at about 0 billion as part of a trade dispute. President Donald Trump appears ready to add a further 15 percent in tariffs on additional goods valued at 5 billion if a trade agreement isn't reached by Dec 15. Washington and Beijing are working on a "phase one" trade agreement as the first step in resolving the impasse.
The US Department of Agriculture said some 19.4 million insured acres went unplanted due to rain, which it said was the highest amount since it started tracking in 2007.
The UK heritage sector contributed 987 million pounds (.3 million) to the British economy in 2016, an annual increase of 7 percent. It employs 278,000 people.
The US is also exerting pressure on other countries through international networks and tightening its technical restrictions on China. Science and technology cooperation and personnel exchanges between China and the US have also been affected.
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The US consulate general in Wuhan. [Photo/Agencies]
The US Coast Guard has evacuated some people from devastated areas by helicopter. The United Nations, the British Royal Navy, American Airlines and Royal Caribbean and other organizations have mobilized to send in food, water, generators, roof tarps, diapers, flashlights and other supplies.
The US approval rating suffered most in its own neighborhood, the Americas, where the ratings dropped to a new low. Approval of US leadership plummeted in every country in the region in 2017. Only a median 24 percent approved of US leadership, while a whopping 58 percent disapproved US leadership.
The US administration's approaches are worrying many scholars and vaccine experts.