Scale AI founder Alexander Wang said that elites who leave China for the United States never return to China, as most of those who leave China do not like the Chinese Communist Party.
Born and raised in Los Alamos, Wang shared, “My parents are both dedicated public servants. I want to ensure that the United States succeeds in the field of artificial intelligence.” This is how Mr. Wang typically introduces himself.
A genius of Chinese descent with American citizenship, Wang is under 30 years old this year (born in 1997). Scale AI primarily focuses on data labeling businesses and is currently valued at around 14 billion US dollars. Scale AI has been involved in nearly every major breakthrough in the field of AI. Additionally, the company collaborates with the US Department of Defense and OpenAI.
Wang’s parents are physicists who work at the Los Alamos National Laboratory of the US Department of Energy.
During a recent interview with Jordan Schneider, the host of the self-media platform “China Talk,” Wang stated, “My parents immigrated from China to the United States. They detest the Chinese Communist Party and are committed to national security issues in the United States.”
“Looking at the bigger picture, it’s a one-way street. Elites leave China for the United States and then they never return to China,” Wang said. “Those who leave China mostly do not like the Chinese Communist Party, so they don’t really intend to go back.”
He pointed out that this can also be seen from some of the Chinese Communist Party’s own policies.
“In the past, they encouraged students to pursue graduate studies in the United States, but they later found that not enough people were returning to China. Now they encourage students to go to Russia or Europe for STEM studies,” Wang mentioned.
According to statistics from the Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET) at Georgetown University, Chinese and Indian citizens make up nearly half of all international STEM doctoral graduates in the United States, with the majority staying in the US after graduation.
As of February 2017, about 90% of Chinese citizens who completed STEM doctoral studies in the United States between 2000 and 2015 remained in the country, compared to 66% from other countries (excluding India).
The Financial Times recently interviewed 10 Chinese Communist Party members studying and working in the United States. Respondents who are employed in the US workforce stated that they would try to conceal their party affiliation when applying for US work visas and deny being members of the Chinese Communist Party.
Five professionals working at top technology companies in California and New York, aged between 25 and 35, disclosed that they hid their party membership when job-hunting this year.
In June, US Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell stated that the United States should welcome more students from China who study humanities rather than STEM fields. He highlighted that for security reasons, US universities are restricting Chinese students from accessing sensitive technical professions.
Campbell noted that some view China as the sole source to fill the shortage of STEM students, but he holds a different perspective.
“I believe the greatest growth we need to see in the future will be having more Indian students coming to the United States to study a range of technologies and other fields,” Campbell said.
Since 2022, the number of Indian students studying in the US has surpassed China for the first time, making India the largest source of foreign international students in the United States.