Nikki Haley thinks China is coming for your brain
(Insert American brain joke)

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Chinese Scientists Increasingly Leaving U.S.
A new study suggests the Department of Justice’s China Initiative investigations may have strengthened the foreign power by encouraging more scientists to relocate there.

When the Department of Justice announced its China Initiative in 2018, it said protecting national security was a goal.

But a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests the initiative’s investigations may have caused valuable researchers of Chinese descent to leave the U.S. for China.

The paper, “Caught in the crossfire: Fears of Chinese-American scientists,” doesn’t confirm causation between the initiative and the departures. Its data, from 2010 to 2021, shows that the annual number of Chinese-descent scientists leaving the U.S. was steadily increasing before 2018.

But the trend greatly accelerated that year, the study found.

“The migration has increased during those 12 years, from 900 scientists in 2010 to 2,621 in 2021, with an accelerated departure rate (75 percent higher) in the last three years … coinciding with the launch of the China Initiative in 2018,” the authors wrote.

The Justice Department, which didn’t comment for this story, ended the initiative in early 2022. The authors wrote that there are questions over how much “the formal dropping of the ‘China Initiative’ name has been accompanied by substantive changes in the government’s practices that address the chilling effects.” (...)

The White Man's Burden

NYT hypes China threat: They’re reading the internet
That Beijing is mining publicly available information is not new or surprising but fear mongering about it in Washington is good for business.

“Powerful countries collecting intelligence on other powerful countries (including their own allies) is a universal and banal feature of international relations, and it only becomes a danger to national security if the other country is a committed enemy,” said Jake Werner, who specializes in U.S.-China relations as a Research Fellow at the Quincy Institute. “China is not today a U.S. enemy, but feverishly hyping supposed threats from China is driving a confrontational approach to U.S.–China relations that risks turning China into such an enemy.”

Werner added, referring to the Times article, “treating China as an enemy encourages the exaggeration of differences between the two countries and blindness to similarities.”

Exaggerating those differences and engaging in China threat-inflation is also good for business, whether that means selling more newspapers, getting reelected, giving more money to the defense industry, and getting funding directly from it. Indeed, any company involved in “threat intelligence,” as Recorded Future apparently is, certainly has an interest in seeing that those threats exist, real or imagined.

not sure why the ccp would want to erase/hide this
blatant intentional censorship by the ccp  obviously destroys trust and credibility
not a wise move on their/xi's part

i know i probably posted some of his work in the past

kaiser kuo is very good on all things china (his sinica podcast is a great resource)

 Proclivities wrote:

as i understand it one of the wrinkles is that micron pulled out of an IPO three days before scheduled
someone in power probably felt slighted/upset so micron gets investigated
probably more nuanced than that

there are legit analyses/conversations regarding this and similar topics
the china power project is pretty good (listen/read here)
 or paul triolo's work too (over at csis) he has a twitter account that pings some tech news as well
regards


 

 Proclivities wrote:
Twitterspherically speaking of course. 

 R_P wrote:
Pretty awkward wording: "stop selling advanced microchip sales".  Seems like it was written by a bot or a translator program.  Then again, I'm not used to the Twitter-sphere - maybe a lot of tweets read like that.

Clutches pearls, "They're weaponizing microchips!"

 miamizsun wrote:
No, it isn't. It's based more on the daily drum (news) beat of de-coupling.

 R_P wrote:

so you post an article about the activity of science articles submitted
and i agree  it is good that this is happening
i also agree with the article you posted that cooperation benefits all involved
and what do you post in response?
did you read the article you posted?
and if you did read it, the above is what you took away?
is this really your best objective assessment of what was written?
regards

I think they'll remember 'cooperation'

Who Is In Space?

 miamizsun wrote:
Increased cooperation with bellicose sinophobes (G7 flunkies) is unlikely, but there are plenty of other people on the globe to work with.

Last year...
U.S. science no longer leads the world. Here’s how top advisers say the nation should respond

The state of US education? More worried about guns, genitals and historical correctness.

 R_P wrote:

that's the good
here's where it could improve

Caroline Wagner, a science and policy researcher at the Ohio State University in Columbus, who has published research¹ suggesting that China has overtaken the United States on top-cited papers, says that, when measured on “simple bibliometrics like productivity and citations, China has outperformed expectations”.

She adds, however, that it still “significantly trails” behind other nations “in its capacity to absorb and apply knowledge”, and that the impact of the decline in its research collaborations with some major countries, such as the United States, remains uncertain.

This, Wagner says, “portends ill for domestic progress. Numerous scholars have demonstrated that China’s most-cited works are produced in collaboration with other nations, particularly the United States.”

In Washington, China is a four-letter word and the excuse for everything
Lawmakers have introduced nearly 275 measures this session, while bureaucrats are busy using the CCP to justify ballooning budgets.

At a time of intense partisan polarization, bashing China is one issue on which both parties can’t get enough. Republicans sense that China’s rise — and the supposed American decline that accompanies it — serves as a useful political weapon against President Joe Biden.

“The second thing that’s happening, and that’s more concerning for me,” Michael Brenes, Non-Resident Fellow at the Quincy Institute, told Responsible Statecraft, “is that the Biden administration is pursuing a policy where it believes the China threat can be served to revive or renew American democracy and American foreign policy, in a post war on terror era.” Meaning, he added, that everything from domestic renewal to industrial policy to foreign policymaking is being justified on that basis. (...)

The way in which this is being framed caters to the most hawkish members in Congress, according to Brenes. But he’s not confident that the trend will be reversed anytime soon, because targeting a common enemy is “just too convenient for politicians in the United States, particularly at the moment where we’re getting concerned about the anxiety of American power, and concerned about the future of American dominance and hegemony.”