In an op-ed published in TIME, CSET’s Dewey Murdick and Owen Daniels discussed the Chinese government’s recent decision to cut off international access to a significant portion of their country’s public data. This includes contracts, patents, scientific conference proceedings, dissertations, and statistical information. The authors highlights the negative implications of this action, emphasizing that it hampers the research conducted by organizations like CSET, which relies on accurate and responsible analysis using Chinese data.

Read the full op-ed in TIME.