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China advises citizens specializing in AI to avoid traveling to America

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Re: China advises citizens specializing in AI to avoid traveling to America

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This is where it gets tricky. Aren’t China and Russia allies too? Holy fuck. The new gang is rewriting the rules to foreign policy. So much that my head hurts to try to make any sense of it.

To be fair at this point it seems like US is drifting closer to Russia side than China is. At least if they stop arms shipments and other aid.

China is barely Russia’s ally, AFAIK they haven’t sold them any weapons. Didn’t try forcing Ukraine to surrender and even abstained on the UN resolution that the US-Russia-North Korea axis opposed.

Re: China advises citizens specializing in AI to avoid traveling to America

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is where it gets tricky. Aren’t China and Russia allies too? Holy fuck. The new gang is rewriting the rules to foreign policy. So much that my head hurts to try to make any sense of it.

To be fair at this point it seems like US is drifting closer to Russia side than China is. At least if they stop arms shipments and other aid. China is barely Russia’s ally, AFAIK they haven’t sold them any weapons. Didn’t try forcing Ukraine to surrender and even abstained on the UN resolution that the US-Russia-North Korea axis opposed.

They signed an unlimited alliance the day Russia invaded?

Guessing 3 month old bot account

Re: China advises citizens specializing in AI to avoid traveling to America

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China is acting in accordance with US interests on this matter:

>Despite the U.S.’ enduring appeal among China’s tech workers, visa hurdles and tough-on-China policies appear to be a rising occurrence, immigration lawyers and industry insiders told Rest of World. The U.S. government introduced the China Initiative in 2018 and Proclamation 10043 in 2020 — programs designed to protect U.S. national security, but which critics say fueled racial profiling and destroyed hundreds of legitimate careers of Chinese scientists in the U.S. Ottawa earlier this year said it would bar federal funds from flowing to researchers and organizations linked to a list of Chinese, Russian, and Iranian institutions.

While President Joe Biden scrapped the China Initiative in 2022, measures targeting China’s technology industry have continued. Biden’s administration has passed multiple export control measures designed to block China from accessing chips used to develop AI technologies, proposed restrictions on U.S. investments in Chinese tech and AI, and threatened bans on Chinese-owned platforms like TikTok.

Such policies provoke a “fear factor” among Chinese STEM workers, discouraging those in the U.S. from settling, and creating a wide perception that they would be unwelcome at American higher education institutions, Yingyi Ma, professor and director of Asian studies at Syracuse University, told Rest of World.

Chinese nationals applying to work and study in North America have been subject to greater scrutiny and drawn-out security screenings, translating into lengthy visa delays and even deportations. Silicon Valley firms including Google and OpenAI are stepping up their own security screenings of potential recruits as U.S. authorities increasingly voice espionage concerns.

https://restofworld.org/2024/china-us-immigration-policy-ai-...

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