They went to the best universities in China and in the West. They lived middle-class lives in Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen and worked for technology companies at the center of China’s tech rivalry with the United States.
Now they are living and working in North America, Europe, Japan, Australia — and just about any developed country.
Chinese — from young people to entrepreneurs — are voting with their feet to escape political oppression, bleak economic prospects and often grueling work cultures. Increasingly, the exodus includes tech professionals and other well-educated middle-class Chinese.
“I left China because I didn’t like the social and political environment,” said Chen Liangshi, 36, who worked on artificial intelligence projects at Baidu and Alibaba, two of China’s biggest tech companies, before leaving the country in early 2020. He made the decision after China abolished the term limit for the presidency in 2018, a move that allowed its top leader, Xi Jinping, to stay in power indefinitely.
“I will not return to China until it becomes democratic,” he said, “and the people can live without fear.” He now works for Meta in London.
The U.S. doesn’t want smart people anymore. The U.S. wants obedient consumers.
I think this article focuses more on personal reasons. For example:
Hey good for her, Norway is awesome if she can live with the winters, the different culture and a relatively small Chinese population. Sounds like it worked out for her in the end.
I know Lemmy is just Reddit 2.0 and aMeRiCa bAd and everything, but believe it or not we still attract and churn out some of the world’s brightest and are leading the pack in tech development and entertainment (which are often not coincidentally intertwined).
….huh?
The United States government, or at least half of it, literally wants the populace as stupid and malleable as possible.
No, I get it. But clearly the comment I replied to doesn’t relate to the article. The zero-effort comments belong on Reddit.
This article doesn’t support the notion of promoting consumerism at all. It does support the argument that the US has a gun violence problem that’s now scaring people away and a work-life balance problem. In addition to the immigration system being inadequate at best.
Students seeking a visa via schools here get screwed by schools as there’s a limited pool of these visas and schools are much more expensive to international students — so on this, why wait for the visa lottery only to be raked over the coals for a ton of money?
Another option is the H1B program which some people have argued is argued to have too low of caps, but until you’re able to wait out the greencard backlog, you’re at risk of getting laid off and forced to go back almost immediately. Kinda sucks for those wanting to start a life here.
Bro you’re talking about zero effort comments and you literally dropping … Huh?'s.
The response is succinct and adequately serves to express my belief that the comment does not relate to the content of the article.