US fuels brain drain to China with Trump’s anti-science ‘Cultural Revolution’
Chinese-American researchers are finding similarities with chaotic period under Mao Zedong that targeted intellectuals in China
The upheaval continued for a decade, crippling China’s science and education sectors as well as its economy, leaving scars that lasted for generations. Chinese-American scientists have independently noted similarities with the United States under President Donald Trump.
A number of Chinese-American researchers interviewed by the Post shared the same impression, describing their careers as “chaotic” and the path forward as looking increasingly uncertain.
Among them was a biologist, based in the American Midwest, who asked not to be named because he feared retribution. Aged in his late 50s, he said that he had once planned to stay in the US until retirement.
