01-30-2026, 10:37 PM
I had heard of this a while back...
Reportedly the Chinese initiative was their own program to recruit high-level expert talent into their country. A laudable notion... but you see while they practiced this from within their sphere of influence, it was alright... but when it started happening that people researching highly sensitive subject and technologies here in the U.S., for the government or US contracted companies... turned out to be Chinese national citizens...
Angst set in.
From the Wiki:
Those concerns were dismissed in the media as "racist."
The program was 'addressed' via the legal system...
following the reporting...
I suppose it's too difficult to prove that you're acquired skill set from an expert position actually 'belongs' to the people where you developed it. But then, there is a great deal of unproven but highly suspect tech transfer from the US to China...
But the two sentence herein confuses me somehow...
From: Bid to resurrect US government’s controversial ‘China Initiative’ fails
Does that mean that the aforementioned "racist" label persist on this 'concern?'
Or is it that unless you have cause other than "Chinese" you must "Don't ask don't tell?"
Reportedly the Chinese initiative was their own program to recruit high-level expert talent into their country. A laudable notion... but you see while they practiced this from within their sphere of influence, it was alright... but when it started happening that people researching highly sensitive subject and technologies here in the U.S., for the government or US contracted companies... turned out to be Chinese national citizens...
Angst set in.
From the Wiki:
Quote:The Thousand Talents Plan or Thousand Talents Program (TTP), or Overseas High-Level Talent Recruitment Programs is a program by the government of the People's Republic of China to recruit experts in science and technology from abroad, principally but not exclusively from overseas Chinese communities. The original program was replaced by another program called Qiming, administered by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.
Law enforcement and counterintelligence agencies in the United States, Australia, Canada, and other countries have raised concerns about the program as a vector for intellectual property theft and espionage.
Those concerns were dismissed in the media as "racist."
The program was 'addressed' via the legal system...
following the reporting...
Quote:Academics in the US were charged and prosecuted under this programme for allegedly failing to disclose their ties with China, without serious evidence that they stole technology. Some convictions resulted, the most notable of which was nanoscience pioneer Charles Lieber who chaired Harvard University’s chemistry department, but many of these cases ended up being dismissed due to lack of evidence.
Lieber had faced up to 26 years in prison and fines of over $1 million (£730,000), but he avoided prison and steep fines in April 2023 after being sentenced to time served for the two days he had spent in jail following his January 2020 arrest. Lieber moved to China two years later and became a full-time professor at Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School
I suppose it's too difficult to prove that you're acquired skill set from an expert position actually 'belongs' to the people where you developed it. But then, there is a great deal of unproven but highly suspect tech transfer from the US to China...
But the two sentence herein confuses me somehow...
From: Bid to resurrect US government’s controversial ‘China Initiative’ fails
Quote:Efforts to reestablish the US’s controversial ‘China Initiative’ are dead. The programme was created during the first Trump administration and cancelled by former President Biden almost four years ago amid criticisms that it created a hostile environment for Chinese scientists in the US and constituted racial profiling.
Does that mean that the aforementioned "racist" label persist on this 'concern?'
Or is it that unless you have cause other than "Chinese" you must "Don't ask don't tell?"
