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China advises citizens specializing in AI to avoid traveling to America

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@Dang - can we use the actual WSJ article [0] instead of a second hand source

[0] - https://www.wsj.com/world/china/china-ai-us-travel-advisory-...

Especially when that source is Houthi state media!

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O ye of little faith...

It doesn’t have callouts for regular users, but Dang seems to always show up when atted.

IME sometimes he does, sometimes he doesn't.

Any user can use the search bar at the bottom of every page to search for their username in comments.

I’m willing to bet the mods have notifications for such.

Also, doesn’t HN have an API, which, if I understand correctly, has more capability than the web page.

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Presumaby they are worried about a reprise of what happend to Meng Wanzhou, daughter of the founder of Huawei, who was put under house arrest in Canada, thus severely damaging Canadian diplomatic and commercial relations with China, all for the US who initiated the proceedings to say "never mind" 3 years later.

I'm pretty sure the Canadians are not going to take a bullet for the US again. And the Chinese would not take the risk for their AI researchers, who like those who work at DeepSeek have proven they can be world-class.

They might get a job offer they can't refuse.

This is the real risk, from Chinese gov point of view!

https://archive.ph/0RLxN

This is a classic:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Elcom_Ltd

I'd say the same about US citizens traveling to China.

Well, most people would expect their country to treat people better than China.

Lol have you ever been to China

Yes, and I can attest they treated me well.

One of our Chinese AI devs mysteriously reported "visa issues" and having trouble returning to the states.

I found it odd she didn't say from whom she was having visa issues with, and I suspected it was on her side. This supports that hunch.

Weirdly enough, I’m starting to find Chinese govt advisories more credible than US ones

China is acting in accordance with US interests on this matter:

>Despite the U.S.’ enduring appeal among China’s tech workers, visa hurdles and tough-on-China policies appear to be a rising occurrence, immigration lawyers and industry insiders told Rest of World. The U.S. government introduced the China Initiative in 2018 and Proclamation 10043 in 2020 — programs designed to protect U.S. national security, but which critics say fueled racial profiling and destroyed hundreds of legitimate careers of Chinese scientists in the U.S. Ottawa earlier this year said it would bar federal funds from flowing to researchers and organizations linked to a list of Chinese, Russian, and Iranian institutions.

While President Joe Biden scrapped the China Initiative in 2022, measures targeting China’s technology industry have continued. Biden’s administration has passed multiple export control measures designed to block China from accessing chips used to develop AI technologies, proposed restrictions on U.S. investments in Chinese tech and AI, and threatened bans on Chinese-owned platforms like TikTok.

Such policies provoke a “fear factor” among Chinese STEM workers, discouraging those in the U.S. from settling, and creating a wide perception that they would be unwelcome at American higher education institutions, Yingyi Ma, professor and director of Asian studies at Syracuse University, told Rest of World.

Chinese nationals applying to work and study in North America have been subject to greater scrutiny and drawn-out security screenings, translating into lengthy visa delays and even deportations. Silicon Valley firms including Google and OpenAI are stepping up their own security screenings of potential recruits as U.S. authorities increasingly voice espionage concerns.

https://restofworld.org/2024/china-us-immigration-policy-ai-...

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