Top chip designer Sun Nan leaves US and finds ‘room to play’ in China

Don't know if we'll be seeing chinese scientists in US under house arrest or worse again (hopefully not) but, for those unfamiliar: 钱学森 Qian Xuesen co-founded NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (1940s), later got the attention of McCarthy-ites and his family was subject to basically house arrest and surveillance for 5 years (deferred deportation), went back to China and led a bunch of programs and never looked back, became known as the "Father of Chinese Rocketry".

the US attracted brain drain candidates for decades now, but would soon rather let anticommunism and racism get the better of them again and repeat the same "mistakes" and shoot themselves in the foot... honestly better for the Chinese people who can and did return as sinophobia ramps up (and probably will continue apace again in Trump's 2nd term, not that the western media didn't try to elevate sinophobia during Biden's term between Pelosi's flight to Taiwan, weather balloon, accusing zoo of fielding a man in a suit as a sunbear, etc). Space Race then, chips/AI now (article mentions Mr Sun returned during Trump's first term, motivated by the racist 'China Initiative')