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China Chases Silicon Valley Talent Who Are Worried About Trump Presidency (cnbc.com)
China is trying to capitalize on President-elect Donald Trump's hardline immigration stance and vow to clamp down on a foreign worker visa program that has been used to recruit thousands from overseas to Silicon Valley. From a report on CNBC: Leading tech entrepreneurs, including Robin Li, the billionaire CEO of Baidu, China's largest search engine, see Trump's plans as a huge potential opportunity to lure tech talent away from the United States. The country already offers incentives of up to $1 million as signing bonuses for those deemed "outstanding" and generous subsidies for start-ups. Meanwhile, the Washington Post last month reported on comments made by Steve Bannon, who is now the president-elect's chief strategist, during a radio conversation with Trump in Nov. 2015. Bannon, the former Breitbart.com publisher, indicated that he didn't necessarily agree with the idea that foreign talent that goes to school in America should stay in America. "When two-thirds or three-quarters of the CEOs in Silicon Valley are from South Asia or from Asia, I think ...," Bannon said, trailing off. "A country is more than an economy. We're a civic society."
If you're wetting your pants every day because you believe made-up scary stories about future Trump Administration actions, China wants you. They have a special story they want to tell you, and they know that after you hear it, you'll do exactly what they want you to. You're the perfect recruit. Apply now.
For outstanding talent. Hint, you are not outstanding talent. I am not outstanding talent. Linus Torvalds might be outstanding talent. Most of the people that would be effected by anything Trump would do, China would kindly give them a work visa and that's it. And with the animosity I've seen between our Chinese workers and our Indian workers, if the guy is from India, they might not even be willing to do that.
China will never innovate until there's a culture change. In China, decisions come from the top. Those below do what they are told and do not challenge authority. They don't contribute original idea and make open suggestions; that's not their job. This has been engrained in Chinese culture for centuries and ultimately why the CCP is able to rule with the (softish) iron fist they do. To think getting all this talent from the American system is going to change that...nope. You can have all the smart people you want but if you don't let them do their own thing, it doesn't really matter. The CEOs and bosses in China are going to have to adapt to allow their new imports to be themselves....but they've been actively discouraging this for years and it's not going to change all of a sudden. As long as the boss is getting the graft and making money, that's what matters.
The people who came to America left China for any of several dozen reasons. They're going to have to be thrown out before they go back, unless the Chinese government is going to hook them up with a sweet job. Working for a Chinese company? Yeah, no one's going to want to leave America to do that.
Depends. China is, apparently, a pretty nice place to live if you're relatively wealthy and are on the good side of the Party establishment. Trumps America will probably be quite similar. Going from one such country where you're on the wrong side of the people in power to one where you're on their right side is probably an improvement.
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By the dumbed-down snowflake "let's protest everything" generation I assume you mean the ones who are protesting that foreign workers are stealing jobs (when most of those jobs are gone due to automation), and all Muslims are terrorists. Or possibly the people who believe Steve Bannon claiming that two thirds or three quarters of Silicon Valley CEOs are Asian - you'd have to be pretty dumb to believe that. Still, I'm glad to hear that people are finally waking up to the fact that mainstream media, like Breitbart, are full of lies.
No one trusts the mainstream media here and it's losing viewers left and right.
Agreed. No one trusts Fox because of their direct connections to the Republican party, lack of any opposing voices and putting out fake news.
The only people who keep saying they don't trust the "mainstream media" are the same people who ignored all the criminal assaults on women Trump has done, ignored his use of illegal foreign workers, his use of Chinese steel, his bankrupt casinos and numerous other businesses despite claiming he's a great businessman, not to mention having his name brand products made in China and Mexico while claiming he'll bring jobs to this country.
Anyone with a little bit of reading comprehension can see past the bullshit.
Except for the people I just mentioned who swallowed the con artist's bullshit hook, line and sinker. They believe he'll put up the internment camps for people of the Muslim faith (he's not), that he'll put Hillary Clinton in jail (he's not), that he'll get rid of Obamneycare on his first day in office (he's not), that he'll drain the swamp (he's filling it), that he'll do this or that, which he won't.
As Idiocracy showed us, people have gone down the rabbit hole of stupidity and Trump is the result.
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