The agreement is important to both governments. It serves as a commitment to each other that we are both determined to remain both technical and commercial leaders in the global nuclear power industry.
Countryman discusses the mutual benefits of the nuclear cooperation agreement.
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I do not believe that it is in the United States' interest to pursue an autarchic policy of avoiding scientific and technical cooperation in the civilian nuclear field.
We would argue that any effort to step away from JCPOA would reopen a Pandora's box in that region that we do not think we could close again.
It is not a giveaway. It rather is a mutual recognition that the U.S. and China have reciprocal obligations to each other that each must meet.
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