Analysts note a “slow acceleration” in Chinese researchers returning from the US this year amid tighter American visa and funding rules. China has also launched a K visa to attract foreign science and tech talent.

Several prominent Chinese figures, including top Harvard mathematician Liu Jun, award-winning computer scientist and blockchain expert Chen Jing and rising AI star Fu Tianfan, have since left the US and returned to China to take up roles in prestigious institutions in cities like Beijing, Nanjing and Shenzhen.

  • atzanteol@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    227·
    1 天前

    You can’t even post about Winnie the Pooh in China. Just because America has gotten worse does not mean China has become good.

    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      41·
      1 天前

      True, but just because China hasn’t become good doesn’t mean that it’s not now a better place to live for someone who looks even vaguely Chinese and is thus at high risk of becoming a victim of ICE

      • atzanteol@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        85·
        1 天前

        Many human rights organizations have criticized China’s treatment of minority cultures and ethnicities. Uighurs being the most well known.

        • Buffalox@lemmy.worldEnglish
          12·
          1 天前

          Because it’s OK to ban Nazism, and punish people who spread Nazism because Nazism is against our values.
          But somehow it’s not OK to ban extreme religion for the exact same reasons.

          We need to get over the special pleading for religion. Religious extremism is just as harmful, probably even more than any other type of extreme ideology.
          There’s a reason MAGA is called a cult, and that’s because they are in denial of reality, and blindly believe harmful dogma. Just like extreme religion.

          In principle the acts of MAGA are also illegal in many ways in USA, but the law was never really upheld against them, and especially their leader. Once upon a time, treason of that kind would be illegal.
          And in much the same way, religious cults value their own rules more than the rules that are decided by society.

          Freedom of religion is considered a human right, but freedom FROM religion should be an at least equal right, especially for children.

          Nazism had roots in extreme religion to persecute the Jews to the point of outright exterminate them, and now MAGA too has roots in extreme religion, and has many of the bad signs Nazism had in Germany.
          I can understand why China doesn’t want that shit.

          • atzanteol@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            14·
            22 小时前

            But somehow it’s not OK to ban extreme religion for the exact same reasons.

            Like Israel is doing in Gaza?

            • Buffalox@lemmy.worldEnglish
              5·
              19 小时前

              Obviously not, since Israel is doing the exact same the Nazis were, which is an actual genocide.
              I have not heard that China is killing off Uighur’s.

                • Buffalox@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  3·
                  19 小时前

                  With regard to Israel/Palestine, both sides are infested with religious dogma, but Israel is an invader of Palestine. Israel should have no say at all on what goes on in Palestine.
                  You are making a slippery slope argument.

                  What I said was the religion shouldn’t be allowed “special” pleading. Not that they can’t have rights.

                  • atzanteol@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                    1·
                    18 小时前

                    What I said was the religion shouldn’t be allowed “special” pleading. Not that they can’t have rights.

                    So perhaps I misunderstood when you said they don’t have a right to exist (e.g. can be banned)?

                    But somehow it’s not OK to ban extreme religion for the exact same reasons.

        • OctopusNemeses@lemmy.worldEnglish
          18·
          1 天前

          You can’t post about JD Vance because that bloated face meme hurt his feelings. I’m sure any human rights groups worth their salt have had plenty to say about the US. They’ve been disappearing Muslims to black sites for decades. That among the litany of ways minorities are targeted. So what’s your point? That you’re so deep in American propaganda that you thought you had a point?

          • atzanteol@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            2·
            22 小时前

            You can’t post about JD Vance because that bloated face meme hurt his feelings.

            Oh you can’t? Are you afraid for your life after having posted this then? Exactly which journalist has been imprisoned for re-sharing it?

            She went missing in Wuhan in May 2020. It later emerged that she had been taken by the Chinese authorities and detained in Shanghai, where she was convicted of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble” after a sham trial. Zhang Zhan was released on 13 May 2024 after completing a four-year prison sentence.

            https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2025/09/china-journalist-zhang-zhan-sentenced-to-prison-again-on-baseless-charges/

            People only see black and white. Everything is “completely free” or “it’s all just equally bad.” Sooo frustrating. You have no concept of shades of gray do you?

            • EldritchFemininity@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
              1·
              1 小时前

              https://hyperallergic.com/1038623/us-agencies-say-they-have-no-records-of-tourist-flagged-for-jd-vance-meme/

              The public records request filed by Mikkelsen and his lawyer also alleged that Mikkelsen was detained for 18 hours, during which his repeated requests to contact the Norwegian consulate were denied in violation of diplomatic conventions. Mikkelsen also claimed he was threatened with imprisonment and fines if he did not turn over passwords to his device or sign certain documents.

              Mikkelsen had planned a months-long trip to the US to visit friends and tour national parks with his mother, he told Hyperallergic in an interview after he returned to Norway in June. However, while passing through passport control at Newark, he was summoned into a room where he said ICE agents asked him if he planned to commit terrorism, belonged to any extremist groups, or was smuggling narcotics.

              CBP officers then inspected Mikkelsen’s phone, according to his account of the events, where they found the viral meme of a bald JD Vance and photos of a pipe he said he made in trade school. Publicly, the DHS has stated that Mikkelsen was denied entry because he admitted to using marijuana, which he acknowledges having done twice in places where the substance is legal.

              However, DHS’s public narrative does not match what Mikkelsen claims officers told him in the interrogation room, nor does it match documents from CBP reviewed by Hyperallergic.

              Officers handed Mikkelsen a document known as an I-877, which is an official sworn report provided by DHS in instances where an individual is denied entry into the US. Mikkelsen’s I-877 states that he was denied entry because he appeared to be seeking illegal employment, which he denies.

              Mikkelsen told Hyperallergic that during his interview, however, he remembers that he was told the JD Vance meme was “illegal” and “dangerous.”

              Mikkelsen requested a copy of his I-877 in his FOIA request, which the agency claimed it had no record of.

              “I’m disappointed in CBP and ICE for not being able to give me the documents that I have a copy of,” Mikkelsen told Hyperallergic. “If anything, it just looks like they are trying to hide something.”

        • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          13·
          1 天前

          Yeah, I know. I’m DEFINITELY not saying that China’s a good place to live.

          Just that it’s perhaps a less bad place to live for some people than the fascist-occupied US is.