Friend of mine was dating a neuroscience PhD in Syndey, Australia. When they met, he was near flat broke and moved in just to help defray the cost of rent.
A couple years later, he was approached by a Chinese recruiter that offered him a $2M signing bonus and a $1.5M salary to move to Tsinghua University and join their $10M/year neuroscience program. They literally don’t know what to do with all the money and mostly continue to live these modest lives with comically oversized bank accounts. He gets to play with cutting edge equipment alongside a sizeable staff. She takes care of a small house in the country and raises bunnies for fun.
Friend of mine was dating a neuroscience PhD in Syndey, Australia. When they met, he was near flat broke and moved in just to help defray the cost of rent.
A couple years later, he was approached by a Chinese recruiter that offered him a $2M signing bonus and a $1.5M salary to move to Tsinghua University and join their $10M/year neuroscience program. They literally don’t know what to do with all the money and mostly continue to live these modest lives with comically oversized bank accounts. He gets to play with cutting edge equipment alongside a sizeable staff. She takes care of a small house in the country and raises bunnies for fun.
Ah yes. Talent programs.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thousand_Talents_Plan
Whatever you do, don’t ask them to talk about the government haha.
Also true of the US and UK right now.
“hur durr your country also bad”
We can make fun of multiple authoritarian countries at once thank you. It dilutes the point to toss it in every single time with those specifics.
Kinda, I can say Trump is a child fucker and Xi sucks Pooh cock online, and I (or my family) won’t be thrown into a jail cell.
For now… at least.
You can scream it into a paper bag, sure.
But good luck keeping your job as a host on The View or a special investigator at the FBI.
Can’t say anything about freeing Palestine in the UK or you’ll get arrested though.