NEWS ALERT: Chinese government extending offers to scientists in the U.S.

June 4, 2025

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From the Daily Caller: The Chinese government is extending offers to scientists in the U.S. to relocate and work in China in exchange for job security, according to The New York Times.

Ardem Patapoutian, a scientist for Scripps Research and a Nobel Prize winner, was offered to move his lab to “any city, [or] any university” in China that he preferred with guaranteed funding for 20 years after he announced on Bluesky that his federal research funding had been frozen, the NYT reported. Though Patapoutian rejected the offer, foreign policy experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation that the offer raises clear national security concerns.

“[China is] on the hunt. It’s grotesquely opportunistic, and [members of the Chinese Communist Party] will lie, cheat, steal, pay off, pay, deploy to attain and maintain any advantage over the United States and the West. This is asymmetric warfare,” former U.S. ambassador Joseph Cella told the DCNF. “They will do whatever it takes to reach the top of the unipolar world. That’s their design and they will do whatever it takes to get there.”

“The elephant in the room … is that the overwhelming number of Chinese students, scholars and researchers have allegiance only to the Chinese Communist Party, and this undermines our national security,” Cella continued. Chinese researchers can be coerced by the state if they do not comply with a national security law that essentially requires them to cooperate with certain Chinese government directives, Cella said.