{"id":28976,"date":"2025-06-04T04:01:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T04:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=28976"},"modified":"2025-06-04T04:29:02","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T04:29:02","slug":"china-really-wants-to-attract-talented-scientists-trump-just-helped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=28976","title":{"rendered":"China Really Wants to Attract Talented Scientists. Trump Just Helped."},"content":{"rendered":"
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China was already scoring wins in its rivalry with the United States for scientific talent. It had drawn some of the world\u2019s best researchers to its campuses, people decorated with Nobel Prizes, MacArthur \u201cGenius\u201d grants and seemingly every other academic laurel on offer.<\/p>\n

Now the Trump administration\u2019s policies might soon bolster China\u2019s efforts.<\/p>\n

Under President Trump, the United States is slashing the research funding that helped establish its reputation as the global leader in science and technology. The president is also attacking the country\u2019s premier universities, and trying to limit the enrollment of international students.<\/p>\n

Scientists from China are under particular pressure, as U.S. officials have said that they may pose a national security threat by funneling valuable knowledge to China. Chinese-born scientists have been investigated or even arrested. Last week, the Trump administration said it would work to \u201caggressively revoke<\/a>\u201d the visas of Chinese students in \u201ccritical fields.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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As a result, many scholars are looking elsewhere.<\/p>\n

And Chinese institutions have been quick to try and capitalize. Universities in Hong Kong<\/a> and Xi\u2019an<\/a> said they would offer streamlined admission to transfer students from Harvard. An ad<\/a> from a group with links to the Chinese Academy of Sciences welcomed \u201ctalents who have been dismissed by the U.S. NIH,\u201d or National Institutes of Health.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Students taking photos at Peking University in Beijing, on Friday.<\/span>Andrea Verdelli for The New York Times<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u201cThe United States is shooting itself in the foot,\u201d said Zhang Xiaoming, an anatomy expert who last year left the Baylor College of Medicine, in Texas, to lead the medical education program at Westlake University, a research university in the tech hub of Hangzhou.<\/p>\n

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China was already scoring wins in its rivalry with the United States for scientific talent. It had drawn some of the world\u2019s best researchers to its campuses, people decorated with Nobel Prizes, MacArthur \u201cGenius\u201d grants and seemingly every other academic laurel on offer.Now the Trump administration\u2019s policies might soon bolster China\u2019s efforts.Under President Trump, the United States is slashing the research funding that helped establish its reputation as the global leader in science and technology. The president is also attacking the country\u2019s premier universities, and trying to limit the enrollment of international students.Scientists from China are under particular pressure, as U.S. officials have said that they may pose a national security threat by funneling valuable knowledge to China. Chinese-born scientists have been investigated or even arrested. Last week, the Trump administration said it would work to \u201caggressively revoke\u201d the visas of Chinese students in \u201ccritical fields.\u201dAs a result, many scholars are looking elsewhere.And Chinese institutions have been quick to try and capitalize. Universities in Hong Kong and Xi\u2019an said they would offer streamlined admission to transfer students from Harvard. An ad from a group with links to the Chinese Academy of Sciences welcomed \u201ctalents who have been dismissed by the U.S. NIH,\u201d or National Institutes of Health.Students taking photos at Peking University in Beijing, on Friday.Andrea Verdelli for The New York Times\u201cThe United States is shooting itself in the foot,\u201d said Zhang Xiaoming, an anatomy expert who last year left the Baylor College of Medicine, in Texas, to lead the medical education program at Westlake University, a research university in the tech hub of Hangzhou.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28978,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28976"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28979,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28976\/revisions\/28979"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}