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The War for Chinese Talent in America
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In 2018, the Trump Administration declared war on these efforts. Employing a McCarthy-like campaign, called the “China Initiative,” the government investigated Chinese scientists across the U.S. Many individuals were arrested, only to have their cases dropped. Still, hundreds had their research disrupted or lost their jobs.
This lecture documents America’s vigorous counterattack and its efforts to disrupt the transfer of U.S. technology to China. It highlights how the war has undermined Sino-American scientific collaboration and triggered an outflow of Chinese talent from America and back to China.
Where
Louis A. Simpson International Building, Room A71
Princeton, NJ 08544,
Speakers
David Stephen Zweig
Professor Emeritus, Distinguished Visiting Professor, Vice-President
Hong Kong University of Science, Taipei School of Economics and Political Science, National Tsinghua University, Center for China and Globalization
David Zweig (Ph.D., The University of Michigan, 1983) is Professor Emeritus, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Distinguished Visiting Professor of Taipei School of Economics and Political Science, National Tsinghua University, Taiwan, and Vice-President of the Center for China and Globalization (Beijing). He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard in 1984-85. For 15 years, he directed the Center on China’s Transnational Relations at HKUST.
He has surveyed hundreds of Chinese who returned home and many who remain abroad. In 2012, he briefed Li Yuanchao, Director of the Organization Department of the CCP, about why his 1000 Talents Plan was struggling. He was an expert witness for the defense in two cases under the “China Initiative.”
He has authored or edited ten books, including Internationalizing China and China’s Brain Drain to the U.S. (Routledge). Over 40,000 students have taken his two online classes with COURSERA on domestic Chinese Politics and on China and the World.
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Co-hosted with: Princeton Institute for International & Regional Studies, Center on Contemporary China (OWNER)
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