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I know the rhetoric is appealing, but as a Chinese national myself, I have not seen a single STEM person who has left the US for China because of immigration re
by eddieplan9 8y ago
I know the rhetoric is appealing, but as a Chinese national myself, I have not seen a single STEM person who has left the US for China because of immigration reasons. On the contrary there are plenty of them that have gone to China after securing a US green card.
If competing with China for talent is the goal, easeness of doing business and more early stage VC funding - a la “back to 2015” - can help, but it’s not clear those are the right things to do.
- dominostars 8y agoIf we're working with anecdotes I know at least two at the company I most recently worked, when it was still only 300 people.
- kristianov 8y agoGetting a green card and going back to work in China...As a employee, it'll really hurt you financially as you will pay taxes in both countries, and neither of them has low tax rates.
- khuey 8y agoYou're also going to lose your green card pretty quickly that way.
- netheril96 8y agoThe benefit is that you can regret and reverse either decision in a few years.
- jjoonathan 8y agomax(china_tax,us_tax), not china_tax+us_tax, and not even that if you're under $100k or somesuch.
- morgante 8y ago> as a Chinese national myself, I have not seen a single STEM person who has left the US for China because of immigration reasons. Are you kidding? That happens literally all the time. I personally know tons of Chinese friends who wanted to stay in the US but couldn't due to visa issues.