I was hoping somebody would ask that. Actually, there was a rise in Chinese science in the nineties, so you do see collaboration across the world with scientists from China. That has been dropping recently, right? In 1995, however, Canada stagnated and other countries picked up.
Number two is the U.K., which did a major reinvestment in research and innovation, and it paid off because now they're the number two international partner to the United States.
In third place, we're tied. I claimed the bronze just for ourselves, but we're sharing it with Germany. Part of it is a result of the reunification between East and West Germany, where all of a sudden Germany became a bigger country with more scientists, and it had a big impact on its potential to collaborate, but Germany has been investing in both basic science and applied science.
Sometimes we hear about the Fraunhofers, which do industry-university partnerships, and Germans also have the Max Planck institutes. Germany is actually a good example of a country that has huge ambitions for its research and innovation sector, and this makes it incredibly interesting to the U.S. as a scientific partner.