The Chinese government has definitely "bought back" some top talent from the US. It's probably a small number of people. I'm not sure why local governments wou

The Chinese government has definitely "bought back" some top talent from the US. It's probably a small number of people. I'm not sure why local governments would get involved although in general China has had a problem with too much investment and not enough places for it to go. It's not impossible that there are essentially local sovereign wealth funds.