In China, professors have to periodically write essays about how they're ideologically committed to the party goals in order to keep funding and not be fired.

In China, professors have to periodically write essays about how they're ideologically committed to the party goals in order to keep funding and not be fired. These goals are all nice sounding things about national prosperity and such, everyone knows what they're supposed to write, it's a minor chore. In the US, they're only doing this at hire time for D&I so far. We'll see where it goes from there.