A GPU. Very dangerous. Very suspicious.
The Thousand Talents Program is just a talent recruitment program. Tons of countries have analogous programs. Canada calls theirs the "Canada Excellence Research Chairs" program. The UK calls theirs the "Rutherford Fund." The Chinese program has nothing to do with "seeding US universities." It's mostly about encouraging Chinese scientists to return to China, to reverse the brain drain.
China has been remarkably successful in developing domestic industries. 25 years ago you didn't see decent Chinese papers in international journals, now you encounter them all the time. Good for them! It would be good if the US also supported its domestic research, but Americans just won't get advanced degrees in the sciences because it's too hard and the pay is too lousy.