That’s fair and I wouldn’t have linked that if not for other parts of the article: In 2019, a bipartisan Senate report said China’s Thousand Talents Program an

That’s fair and I wouldn’t have linked that if not for other parts of the article: In 2019, a bipartisan Senate report said China’s Thousand Talents Program and similar arrangements were a vector for China to exploit U.S. research. “Through talent recruitment programs like the Thousand Talents, China pays scientists at American universities to secretly bring our knowledge and innovation back to China — including valuable, federally funded research,” FBI Director Christopher Wray said in a speech in 2020. “To put it bluntly, this means American taxpayers are effectively footing the bill for China’s own technological development.”