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Reminds me of the all-hands meetings I had to attend when i worked at a university last year. Legit had to listen to some sanctimonous administrator talk about ensuring that Other Countries^tm^ did not "steal" our researchers. When i later spoke with a coworker about it, I joked that "how dare China pay more and offer better working conditions" and the guy just shrugged and said that he didn't really think it was a problem per se, but that the University was afraid of how it looked when everyone was looking elsewhere. I then countered by asking if we could maybe somehow hope to match these offers, and he just shrugged again and said that we had no hope for that kind of thing. Shortly after I had to attend a meeting about a new faculty facility that had gone over budget by roughly 250 million dollars, so wouldn't you know it, we're broke now.
Oh boy reminds me
China lures increasing numbers of research scholars from Japan - Ample funding and openings attract talent frustrated by chances at home
I almost want to post this again since while the sinophobia shit is definitely an extremely important factor, it is also not really the only one. Clearly China is the place to be for easy funding and getting shit done.