According to a report from Epoch Times on June 30, 2024, founder of the American artificial intelligence company Scale AI, Alexander Wang, mentioned that elites who leave China to come to the United States typically do not return to China because most of them do not favor the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
Hey, I was born in Los Alamos. Both my parents are dedicated civil servants. I want to ensure that the United States excels in the field of artificial intelligence. This is Mr. Wang’s customary opening statement.
A genius of Chinese descent with American citizenship, Mr. Wang is still under 30 years old (born in 1997). The main business of Scale AI is data labeling, with a current market value of around $14 billion. Scale AI has been involved in nearly every major breakthrough in the AI field. Additionally, the company collaborates with the U.S. Department of Defense and OpenAI.
Mr. Wang’s parents are physicists who work at the Los Alamos National Laboratory of the U.S. Department of Energy.
In a recent interview with the self-media host Jordan Schneider from “China Talk,” Mr. Wang stated, “My parents immigrated from China to the United States. They despise the CCP and are dedicated to national security issues in the U.S.”
“If you look a bit further, in general, it’s a one-way street. Elites leave China to come to the U.S., and then they do not return to China,” Mr. Wang said. “Most people who leave China do not like the CCP, so they do not really intend to go back.”
He indicated that this can also be observed from some of the CCP’s own policies.
“In the past, they encouraged graduate studies in the U.S., but later they found that not enough people were returning to China. Now they encourage students to go to Russia or Europe to study science and engineering,” Mr. Wang said.
According to statistics from the Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET) at Georgetown University, Chinese and Indian citizens constitute nearly half of all international STEM PhD graduates in the U.S., and the majority of them stay in the U.S. after graduation.
As of February 2017, approximately 90% of Chinese citizens who completed their STEM PhD studies in the U.S. from 2000 to 2015 chose to remain in the U.S., while the proportion for graduates from other countries was 66% (excluding India).
The Financial Times recently interviewed 10 Chinese Communist Party members studying and working in the U.S. The respondents who are employed in America stated that they try to conceal their party affiliation when applying for U.S. work visas and deny being CCP members.
These five professionals work at top-tier tech companies in California and New York, aged between 25 and 35. They mentioned that they hid their party membership when looking for jobs this year.
In June, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell expressed that the U.S. should welcome more students from China, but they should focus on humanities rather than science and technology. He highlighted that U.S. universities are limiting Chinese students’ exposure to sensitive technology fields for security reasons.
He noted that some people view China as the sole source to address the shortage of science students. However, he holds a different perspective.
“I believe the biggest growth we need to see in the future is having more Indian students come to American universities to study a range of technical and other fields,” Campbell said.
Since 2022, the number of Indian students studying in the U.S. has surpassed China for the first time, making India the top foreign source of international students in the United States.