I really, really hope the new administration has someone who cranks up the "brain drain agenda" to 10. The only challenge is doing so without importing too many spies or covert actors — and that's a REAL challenge. Perhaps it would be easier to aggressively brain-drain China's allies (not that there are any I can think of)...
I was quite shocked that an opthamologist at a clinic I regularly visit resigned after being ousted as a member of the Thousand Talents Program, here in San Diego [0].
[0]: https://timesofsandiego.com/education/2019/07/08/ucsd-doctor...
The CEO of a $600B global publicly traded company disappeared for several months. This does not explicitly mean that he was detained, but it should be a point of concern.
Imagine the outcry if this happened to an American CEO with controversial political opinions (there are a lot of them, so take your pick).
You should take a look at my post history, then. Any time I express concern over China I'm voted into oblivion.
It's the same with Apple, but that I expect.
Recently I think someone has taken to downvoting entirely innocuous posts I make from my post history. Sometimes I'll post replies to day-old threads and find myself downvoted within half an hour.
You're about to be downvoted too, btw.
Tired of posts like that being flagged, and then derided by the mods here as problematic for highlighting plain realities.
We cannot bend to the misinformation from China or any corrupt world government.
This has also been happening on Reddit threads where people post comments critical of China. Top level comments are critical, but then far down the thread, low visibility comments suddenly swing aggressively upward or downward by dozens of votes if they relate to China.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/home-secretary-announces-...
Since when the U.S. providing free citizenships to the countries in need of help?
Since its inception. It may not be immediately apparent, but immigration to the USA was routine in its history and is still very common now.
For example in the late 1970s we accepted refugees from Vietnam: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnamese_boat_people
In the early 1980s we granted citizenship to illegal aliens: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_Reform_and_Control... and new President Biden wants to do it again.
In the 1990s we allowed many Somalis to immigrate here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somali_American
There are countless more examples, old and recent.
i) "The west" is much bigger than the US
ii) Right of political asylum has been "a thing" for a long while, specially for people fleeing authoritarian regimes.
B) The US isn't exactly a hot ticket item at the moment. How many armed riots y'all had this year?
>2. Culture war. Tell Disney it's time to stop being cozy and make a "Chernobyl" style film about Tiananmen, Uyghurs, Tibetans, et al.
That's just straight up propaganda coming from a country that has plenty of bad stuff Disney could make movies from too.
I would want the atrocities of the US documented all the same.
Hold corrupt leadership accountable, always.