That's another important point to keep in mind. A lot of US intellectual capital actually comes from China which is now a peer competitor for US. As US starts d

That's another important point to keep in mind. A lot of US intellectual capital actually comes from China which is now a peer competitor for US. As US starts drumming up Yellow Peril 2.0, a lot of these people are going to go back to China. This is a very different situation from the Cold War when scientists and engineers who defected from USSR didn't want to go back. Large portion of Chinese people living in the west have a positive view of China, and as they see the rise of racism and prosecution then they'll just move to China where they can get same kinds of cushy jobs. This is already happening by the way. A study found that at least 1,400 US-based ethnic Chinese scientists exited American institutions for mainland China https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/3196554/least-1400-us-based-ethnic-chinese-scientists-exited-american-institutions-mainland-study https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/3196554/least-1400-u...