Join us on Sept. 24 to hear noted China expert discuss the U.S. and China’s competition for talent

The War for Chinese Talent in America

When: Sept. 24, 2024 at 5 – 6 p.m. (PDT)
Where: Virtual and In-Person (GPS Robinson Building, conference room 3106)

In the mid-1990s, China continued to lose its highly educated researchers and scholars as they left the country to work abroad. So in 2001, Chinese leader Jiang Zemin tried something new: he encouraged PRC-born Chinese abroad to help their country without having to return home — by transferring knowledge back to China. But in 2018, the Trump administration aimed to block China’s access to such knowledge, and it investigated hundreds of Chinese researchers living and working in the U.S.

Did China’s strategy work? And was the U.S. crackdown worth the negative impact it had on scientific collaboration? Noted China scholar David S. Zweig will answer these questions and more in a fascinating presentation that is sure to interest scholars, scientists, and community members alike.

Be sure to join us for our first public lecture of the 2024-25 academic year.

Speakers:

David S. Zweig, Professor Emeritus, Division of Social Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
Kwai Ng, Professor and Chair, Department of Sociology, UC San Diego

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This public lecture is organized by the 21st Century China Center at the UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy. For more information about this and other events, please visit china.ucsd.edu.