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Crawfish soup on Mars? US fears over Chinaโ€™s scientific ambitions raised in Senate hearing

A Chinese researcherโ€™s vision of serving spicy crawfish soup to astronauts on Mars became an unlikely symbol of Washingtonโ€™s growing anxiety over Chinaโ€™s scientific ambitions at a US Senate hearing on Tuesday. Drew Endy, associate professor at Stanford University and director of bio-strategy and leadership at the Hoover Institution, said that last autumn he met a 20-year-old Chinese researcher from Shanghai at a scientific conference in Paris. Dressed in a large red crawfish costume, the young...