A couple of weeks ago the Scholarly Kitchen blog shared a fascinating report titled "Mind the Gap - Understanding China's Perspective on Research Integrity and Open Access" which provides important insights into issues that CNI has been tracking since late 2020 (see https://www.cni.org/publications/cliffs-pubs/science-nationalism-dec-2020 ) regarding the potential divergence of scholarly communications practices in China and the US/Europe. See

https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2023/11/15/guest-post-mind-the-gap-understanding-chinas-perspective-on-research-integrity-and-open-access/

Also relevant here is a 29 November 2023 Editorial from Nature on the splintering of global science. See

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03711-1

Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI