Several prominent Chinese figures, including top Harvard mathematician Liu Jun, award-winning computer scientist and blockchain expert Chen Jing and rising AI star Fu Tianfan, have since left the US and returned to China to take up roles in prestigious institutions in cities like Beijing, Nanjing and Shenzhen.
What is drawing top comedians to Saudi, a place where you get killed for saying or writing things the ruling family doesn’t like?
I see a trend there but I can’t quite… Wait, could it be loads of money?
Alex, what is, “Maybe they don’t want to get zip-tied half-naked, dehydrated, and then deported to a random country?”
Let’s see… choice is: “stay here, be the victim of overt racism and live life with the threat that at any moment masked men may swoop in and carry off you or your family, or be regaled as a hero and given a prestigious position at a university at the front edge of your field, with as much stability as you could ever want….
It’s funny to me that they rather risk random censorship than, idk, humiliatingly detained with a chance of dying. At least CCP is bad in a consistent way, Trump is just bad in a very random way.
Lawful Evil is at least predictable, contrary to Chaotic Evil.
Also, China acknowledges things like climate change, while now any mention of climate change will get your funding cut.
Not only acknowledges, but actively trying to cut down emissions. They’re a growing country(that is still growing because china is crazy huge) and factory of the world, per capita of emission is significantly lower than US. American should be ashamed for letting this happen despite being a developed country, and now its actively screwing over the humanity’s future.
Well this is just me thinking out loud but maybe it’s the fascism
Going to China to avoid fascism is quite the self own, though.
You can’t even post about Winnie the Pooh in China. Just because America has gotten worse does not mean China has become good.
True, but just because China hasn’t become good doesn’t mean that it’s not now a better place to live for someone who looks even vaguely Chinese and is thus at high risk of becoming a victim of ICE
Many human rights organizations have criticized China’s treatment of minority cultures and ethnicities. Uighurs being the most well known.
Because it’s OK to ban Nazism, and punish people who spread Nazism because Nazism is against our values.
But somehow it’s not OK to ban extreme religion for the exact same reasons.We need to get over the special pleading for religion. Religious extremism is just as harmful, probably even more than any other type of extreme ideology.
There’s a reason MAGA is called a cult, and that’s because they are in denial of reality, and blindly believe harmful dogma. Just like extreme religion.In principle the acts of MAGA are also illegal in many ways in USA, but the law was never really upheld against them, and especially their leader. Once upon a time, treason of that kind would be illegal.
And in much the same way, religious cults value their own rules more than the rules that are decided by society.Freedom of religion is considered a human right, but freedom FROM religion should be an at least equal right, especially for children.
Nazism had roots in extreme religion to persecute the Jews to the point of outright exterminate them, and now MAGA too has roots in extreme religion, and has many of the bad signs Nazism had in Germany.
I can understand why China doesn’t want that shit.You can’t post about JD Vance because that bloated face meme hurt his feelings. I’m sure any human rights groups worth their salt have had plenty to say about the US. They’ve been disappearing Muslims to black sites for decades. That among the litany of ways minorities are targeted. So what’s your point? That you’re so deep in American propaganda that you thought you had a point?
Yeah, I know. I’m DEFINITELY not saying that China’s a good place to live.
Just that it’s perhaps a less bad place to live for some people than the fascist-occupied US is.
…after reading the article, money, greed, opportunity…
This is propaganda.
From Singapore…
So what?
All media is propaganda, so the question is whoes. This is from Singapore, which is very well placed to take in Chinese researches itself. So saying China is an option, is not extacly positive for them.
i wouldnt call it reverse brain drain, the problem with china is having the CCP as the govt, which they can disallow any type of research they dont like. also china has a problem innovation, instead going for reverse engineering through industrial espionage which is much easier to do then performing hypothetical research. the most useful research they done is mostly around botany/discovery, dinosaurs, because plants have a massive biodeversity in china
