For people from Russia or other countries China could be attractive option.
Take-home money can be good, especially with low taxation.
US is not really a competition, it is relatively unfriendly to foreigners, very hard to move there.
But I think China wants to mainly increase talent retention. There are many Chinese who stay in US after finishing their studies there. China wants those educated people back.
Anyway it is quite a funny situation. Some climate scientists had to fight tooth and nail, to get raw climate data available.
And mirroring online data and media content, has been a best practice in some communities for several years.