Troubling the Water.

The concept of open science, like 'free market', is a depoliticising myth that conceals the uneven structures of power undergirding knowledge production and transmission. New restrictions from the US Government on scientific collaborations with China are not an aberration due to current geopolitical tensions, but the continuation of a decades-old effort to subject academic research to state and corporate interests, as reflected in the long history of US-- China academic exchange. Knowledge flows across borders have always been conditional; the question is under whose conditions and what are the borders for. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]