{"id":28136,"date":"2022-10-20T16:53:47","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T16:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/china-has-entire-system-to-poach-scientists-working-in-us-security-firm-reveals"},"modified":"2022-10-20T17:31:13","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T17:31:13","slug":"china-has-entire-system-to-poach-scientists-working-in-us-security-firm-reveals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/china-has-entire-system-to-poach-scientists-working-in-us-security-firm-reveals","title":{"rendered":"China Has Entire \u2018System\u2019 to Poach Scientists Working in US, Security Firm Reveals"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Mozambique. <\/strong><\/span>Last month, Utah-based private security and intelligence company Strider Technologies discovered that China had recruited more than 160 researchers from the Los Alamos National Laboratory \u2013home to America\u2019s nuclear weapons program. But China isn\u2019t the only nation that\u2019s flexed its muscles in the race to poach the planet\u2019s top minds.<\/p>\n

Chinese authorities have put an entire \u201csystem\u201d in place to poach top scientists working in the US and encourage them to go back to China, Strider Technologies CEO Greg Levesque has indicated.<\/p>\n

The security and intelligence analyst is the author of the bombshell report published last month detailing China\u2019s strategy of recruiting top Chinese-born scientists working at Los Alamos and convincing them to return to the motherland, sometimes to work on advanced military technology including hypersonics, drones, jet engines, submarines and powerful warheads.<\/p>\n

Levesque says he was shocked to find out how many scientists China succeeded in luring back home while writing his report, saying \u201cit was not a couple, it was the vast majority.\u201d<\/p>\n

Levesque\u2019s report calculated that a whopping 162 Chinese-born permanent staff, visiting scholars and postdoctoral researchers from Los Alamos were recruited by Chinese authorities and academia to return home between 1987 and 2021, with many of them settling at the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) in Shenzhen \u2013 one of the Asian nation\u2019s top science schools.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, nearly a dozen congresspeople sent Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm a letter urging her to address the information in the Los Alamos report and accusing China of \u201cinfiltrating US research and technology laboratories, academic institutions and industries\u201d and \u201cstealing our research and technology.\u201d The Department of Energy has prohibited its personnel from engaging with Chinese talent recruitment schemes since 2019.<\/p>\n

The brain drain from Western countries highlighted in the Strider report has been accompanied by a brawn drain, with UK media reporting Tuesday that the nation\u2019s former military pilots have been recruited by China and paid six figure salaries to train their Chinese counterparts. Separately on Tuesday, an investigation by US media revealed that over 500 US military retirees have worked for foreign governments since 2015.<\/p>\n

\u2018America\u2019s Secret Weapon\u2019<\/p>\n

Amid these recent complaints about Chinese activities in \u201cpoaching\u201d scientists and military personnel, the United States itself has been accused of doing exactly the same thing to prop up its sagging technological superpower status over the decades.<\/p>\n

In 2011, leading American theoretical physicist Dr. Michio Kaku said that America has the \u201cworst educational system known to science,\u201d but that compensates for it with a \u201csecret weapon\u201d \u2013 the H1B \u2018Genius visa.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cWithout the H1B the scientific establishment of this country would collapse. Forget about Google, forget about Silicon Valley. There would be no Silicon Valley without the H1B,\u201d Kaku said, pointing out that the majority of PhD candidates at US educational institutions were foreign born. \u201cThe United States is the magnate sucking up all the brains of the world but now the brains are going back. They\u2019re going back to China, they\u2019re going back to India, and people are saying \u2018oh my God, there\u2019s a Silicon Valley in India now. Oh my God there\u2019s a Silicon Valley in China\u2019…Duh!\u201d the academic stressed.<\/p>\n

The former Soviet bloc is also no stranger to the US and European brain-poaching, with the Russian Academy of Sciences estimating in 2015 that at least 80,000 of the country\u2019s mathematicians, physicists, engineers and scientists left Russia in the first half of the 1990s alone. According to Russian New University rector Vladimir Zernov, the training of these \u2018lost scientists\u2019 alone cost the USSR and Russia the equivalent of over $1 trillion, not counting losses from the outflow of know-how.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Mozambique. Last month, Utah-based private security and intelligence company Strider Technologies discovered that China had recruited more than 160 researchers from the Los Alamos National Laboratory \u2013home to America\u2019s nuclear weapons program. But China isn\u2019t the only nation that\u2019s flexed its muscles in the race to poach the planet\u2019s top minds. 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