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WASHINGTON, Feb. 17-- American and Chinese scientists have called for international collaboration in science research at the ongoing annual meeting of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) to build more trust between two countries. It came after a Chinese elementary particle and accelerator physicist making a roadshow for China's megascience projects in high energy physics at a seminar. Wang Yifang, director of the Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, reviewed how China and the United States worked together to complete a neutrino experiment at China's Daya Bay Reactor and envisioned to have more such cooperation in a cosmic ray observatory project called LHAASO and a more ambitious circular collider in the pipeline. "Actually, in past 30 years, no large-scale high-energy physics project was done by one country," Wang told Xinhua. "And now it is the time for newly developed emerging countries to contribute more to science." Wang was echoed by Caroline Wagner, a science policy expert at Ohio State University. Wagner told Xinhua that the "openness" was critical for basic science research and the key to it was "to share," at all levels. International collaboration is a major topic on this year's AAAS meeting with a theme of "Science Transcending Boundaries." It came against looming challenges for international scientific partnership. Peter Michelson, a Stanford physicist, attributed them to an era of renewed nationalism and anti-globalization and of evidence-based research losing ground. | 
