Scientist like Wu needs a clean, unbiased, trusting, politics-free environment to do their work. When that environment turns to one of suspicion and discrimination, of course she choose to leave.
Don’t trust everything nytimes says about China considering their history of extremely biased and unfair reports on the subject (https://youtu.be/mvpo2jv5eqI).
Coming from an academic background, I actually don’t know how it’s possible to fake your own peer reviews, considering most scientific journals have their own set of trustable reviewers.
You seem to miss the point in the article that there’s no theft happening in this case. The scientist in question is the scientist who had been leading the research.
Well said! FBI and NHI are actually doing China a service by forcing these scientists out of the country. The Thousand Talents program was created to attract the best talents back to China, when Chinese government realized they’re losing top talents to US and other countries. Apparently it has failed to attract Wu back twice but these US investigations did the job.
If US seriously wants to keep an upper hand in competition with China, it should do its best to keep the best minds here on US, not chase them out.