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Chinese Workers Abandon Silicon Valley for Riches Back Home

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219 points thisisit | 2 comments | 11 Jan 18 16:55 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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thebokehwokeh2[dead post] ◴[11 Jan 18 18:41 UTC] No.16126493[source]▶
This will be interesting as it seems to follow the Japanese and Korean models of growing talent abroad and returning home.

Unfortunately, the home they return to is not an ethnocentric utopia like Japan/Korea. It's an ethnocentric, smog/corruption ridden dystopia that just so happens to now be the world's economic superpower.

With America's global standing in the crapper thanks to decades of anti-immigration fearmongering policies lead by the GOP, it'll be interesting to see for how much longer it can stand as the de-facto place for global STEM talent.

1. simion314 ◴[11 Jan 18 19:01 UTC] No.16126683[source]▶
People that return from West could also bring change, at least China has the freedom for the citizens to emigrate and study abroad, east european countries were not that lucky.2
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2. seanmcdirmid ◴[11 Jan 18 19:11 UTC] No.16126786[source]▶
Note that until the 80s freedom of emigration was not allowed by the Chinese government. I believe the same was true with Eastern European countries.