https://tankie.tube/videos/watch/03b598e7-2665-4228-9e01-5b3ce864fd1a Thousands of Chinese researchers and scientists are leaving top jobs in leading US universities and companies, to take posts in China. The Cambridge area of Massachusetts is home to Harvard, MIT, and scores of leading companies, and was the number one source of returning Chinese research and engineering talent. In second place is the Palo Alto-Berkeley cluster, which includes Stanford, University of California, and Silicon Valley. The migration of top scientific and engineering talent back to China is accelerating, but began nearly a decade ago. And while the political situation between China and the United States certainly is a major motivation for many scientists to return, more important is the quality of the education systems. Chinese universities are now claiming the top spots across all the hard science disciplines, while American colleges are tumbling. Closing scene, Dongyang City, Zhejiang Resources and links: NBC, Blocked from Harvard, the world's star students weigh staying in Asia and Europe https://www.nbcnews.com/world/asia/harvard-international-student-ban-trump-china-europe-rcna209044 Channel News Asia, To stay or to go? Chinese students in the US mull future amid Trump’s visa crackdown https://www.channelnewsasia.com/east-asia/china-students-harvard-trump-academic-future-limbo-5162681 Reuters, 'Harvard refugee': Chinese students hunker down as U.S. blocks foreign enrollment https://www.reuters.com/world/china/harvard-refugee-chinese-students-hunker-down-us-blocks-foreign-enrollment-2025-05-23/ Business Standard, Eyeing US exodus, China dangles high salaries to bring scientists home https://www.business-standard.com/world-news/china-woos-us-scientists-researchers-amid-funding-cuts-trump-125051500734_1.html Medium, Is the Mass Departure of Top-Tier Chinese Researchers Good for the U.S.? https://medium.com/@davidsehyeonbaek/is-the-mass-departure-of-top-tier-chinese-researchers-good-for-the-u-s-f8e7a1840b28 New York Times, China Really Wants to Attract Talented Scientists. Trump Just Helped. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/world/asia/trump-science-visa-china.html China leads the world in physics research as US a distant rival, Nature Index shows https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3297914/china-leads-world-physics-research-us-distant-rival-nature-index-shows SCMP, As China sweeps top spots, chemistry seems to be dying in the US. Is this a power shift? https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3300488/china-sweeps-top-spots-chemistry-seems-be-dying-us-power-shift SCMP, Prize-winning computer scientist Quan Guocong picks China post after years in US https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3301086/prize-winning-computer-scientist-quan-guocong-picks-china-post-after-years-us SCMP, US research hub at heart of brain drain for scientists returning to China, study finds https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3298697/us-research-hub-heart-brain-drain-scientists-returning-china-study-finds SCMP, Chen Jing, award-winning computer scientist and blockchain expert, leaves US for China https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3295774/chen-jing-award-winning-computer-scientist-and-blockchain-expert-returns-china-us Former US defence researcher Zhan Hanyu joins China’s elite aerospace university https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3303089/former-us-defence-researcher-zhan-hanyu-joins-chinas-elite-aerospace-university Chinese Scientists Are Leaving the United States https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/07/13/chinese-scientists-united-states-research-tech-academia-china-initiative/ Reverse Brain Drain? Exploring Trends among Chinese Scientists in the U.S. https://sccei.fsi.stanford.edu/china-briefs/reverse-brain-drain-exploring-trends-among-chinese-scientists-us Wed, 08 Apr 2026 13:38:05 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://tankie.tube https://tankie.tube/lazy-static/avatars/3ba3ff73-a8b6-49c9-add8-9653ef090c7f.webp https://tankie.tube/videos/watch/03b598e7-2665-4228-9e01-5b3ce864fd1a All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://tankie.tube/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.