China's research output has risen in recent years. Despite occasional restrictions, co-authorship between Chinese and American scholars has remained surprisingly strong. In this episode of Hot Take, CGTN's Zhao Chenchen spoke with Arnold Pippel, senior vice president at Elsevier – one of the world's largest academic publishing companies and the publisher of these journals – about how journals continue to support global scientific collaboration in a rapidly changing technological landscape, with a special focus on China-US scientific ties.