Back when I was working at a large university in Denmark, our administration kept harping on and on about how we as an institution needed to be mindful of the Chinese attempts to steal our researchers. I was already pretty pro-China at that point, so I would just mock the messages to my colleagues by talking about the sneaky attempts to steal our researchers by offering them better pay, living standards, funding for their research and less political intervention in their work. Most of my colleagues didn’t understand why China was even considered a problem, but before the initiative even got off the ground, the war in Ukraine happened, and suddenly we all had to go to mandatory meetings about the evil russians and the heroic ukrainians (whom we were now arming to the teeth).
Back when I was working at a large university in Denmark, our administration kept harping on and on about how we as an institution needed to be mindful of the Chinese attempts to steal our researchers. I was already pretty pro-China at that point, so I would just mock the messages to my colleagues by talking about the sneaky attempts to steal our researchers by offering them better pay, living standards, funding for their research and less political intervention in their work. Most of my colleagues didn’t understand why China was even considered a problem, but before the initiative even got off the ground, the war in Ukraine happened, and suddenly we all had to go to mandatory meetings about the evil russians and the heroic ukrainians (whom we were now arming to the teeth).