Anybody who's hung out at a US university or worked in tech knows that most of the STEM graduate students and professors are immigrants or guests in the US. China and India plus many other countries have been giving a gift to the United States for decades by sending us their best students and yes, of course, it pays back to the countries who send these students, but to the extent this is policy directed enforcement, in my view it mistakes which direction the majority of the benefit has been flowing. None of that is to say that we should allow spying or theft of IP, but let's do recognize that much of the IP we're trying to protect would not exist if the foreigners and immigrants were not in the US in the first place.
Well said! FBI and NHI are actually doing China a service by forcing these scientists out of the country. The Thousand Talents program was created to attract the best talents back to China, when Chinese government realized they’re losing top talents to US and other countries. Apparently it has failed to attract Wu back twice but these US investigations did the job.
If US seriously wants to keep an upper hand in competition with China, it should do its best to keep the best minds here on US, not chase them out.
