China has lured at least 105 leading American scientists away from U.S. universities and corporations since 2024, a defection wave critics say exposes Beijing’s ambition and the failures of American policy to guard the nation’s intellectual capital.
Nearly half of the past year’s departures work in biotechnology and medicine, a signal the Chinese Communist Party is racing to overtake the United States in medical innovation. Others specialize in space science, climate research, computing and semiconductors.
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