It was reported that Hu had focused on the fast detection of viruses, bringing out various papers in journals and serving as the associate editor of the ACS Nano journal. The South China Morning Post reported that only months before Hu left the US, he had publicly talked about the freezes and cuts to NIH funding. He said a $3.7 million NIH grant impacted by the cuts had been allotted for the early detection of tuberculosis and HIV in children.

Hu Ye has reportedly been appointed founding dean at the new school of biomedical engineering at Tsinghua University.

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[–] 53 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Highly skilled immigrants from countries with authoritarian regimes are immigrants (among other reasons, mostly) because of those regimes. Makes sense that they’ll go back to their own authoritarian regime when the country they’ve immigrated to becomes authoritarian as well.

Fascism in your own (ie born and raised) country is bad, fascism where you’re an immigrant is much worse.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    Right, it's kind of a no brainer.

    Option A: Do I want to be an oppressed scientist working under an evil authoritarian government that will definitely steal my work and feed it to a chaotic monster gobbling down infinite bits of data to create something that will either fizzle out or destroy humanity?

    Or

    Option B: Do I want to be an oppressed scientist working under an evil authoritarian government that will definitely steal my work and feed it to a chaotic monster gobbling down infinite bits of data to create something that will either fizzle out or destroy humanity AND also deal with racist idiots shitting on me for being an immigrant and somehow inherently responsible for destroying their country?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Highly skilled immigrants from countries with authoritarian regimes are immigrants (among other reasons, mostly) because of those regimes. Makes sense that they’ll go back to their own authoritarian regime when the country they’ve immigrated to becomes authoritarian as well.

    Fascism in your own (ie born and raised) country is bad, fascism where you’re an immigrant is much worse.

    Luv it. Also China actually isn't as bad as we think. They are one step behind us. If we are not carefully, they will overtake us financially, technologically and even democratically.

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