{"id":147840,"date":"2026-10-07T07:51:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T11:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=147840"},"modified":"2026-10-07T15:44:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T19:44:14","slug":"nyt-in-race-with-u-s-china-struggles-to-recruit-foreign-a-i-researchers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=147840","title":{"rendered":"(NYT) In Race With U.S., China Struggles to Recruit Foreign A.I. Researchers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the United States and China vie for A.I. dominance, the Trump administration has made it more difficult for companies to hire foreign researchers, while China has made recruiting the world\u2019s best scientists a national priority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Over the past two years, China has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/09\/26\/world\/asia\/china-tech-workers-visas-us-h1b.html\">flung open its doors<\/a> to international researchers, introducing a visa for scientists and offering lucrative research grants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite those efforts, foreigners are not coming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Worse still for China\u2019s ambitions, the number of Chinese scientists working in the United States has risen rather than declined, according to a new study about global A.I. research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For every 30 Chinese researchers in the United States working on artificial intelligence in 2025, only one in China made the opposite journey, <a href=\"https:\/\/carnegieendowment.org\/china\/features\/whos-ahead-in-the-global-ai-talent-race\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">according to the study<\/a>, conducted by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a think tank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/10\/06\/science\/china-ai-research-recruitment.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">In Race With U.S., China Struggles to Recruit Foreign A.I. Researchers https:\/\/t.co\/GRZEJwCxsX &quot;Worse still for China\u2019s ambitions, the number of Chinese scientists working in the United States has risen rather than declined, according to a new study about global A.I. research.&quot;<\/p>&mdash; Bill Bishop (@niubi) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/niubi\/status\/2107548334084809176?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 6, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote>\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the United States and China vie for A.I. dominance, the Trump administration has made it more difficult for companies to hire foreign researchers, while China has made recruiting the world\u2019s best scientists a national priority. Over the past two<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=147840\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,502,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americau-s-a","category-china","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=147840"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":147844,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147840\/revisions\/147844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=147840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=147840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=147840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}