The War for Chinese Talent in America and Lessons for Europe

In his new book, David Zweig analyzes how, since the mid-1990s, China's party/state has vigorously used an extensive array of programs and incentives to persuade ethnic Chinese living in America to transfer their technological knowhow back home. He documents China's 'no-holds-barred' effort to access U.S. technology and America's harsh counterattack and its successful efforts to disrupt the transfer of U.S. technology to China. Zweig's study, which includes an assessment of the first Trump administration's "China Initiative", highlights how this conflict has undermined Sino-American scientific collaboration and triggered an outflow of Chinese talent from America and back to China. 

After a summary of his book, David Zweig will join us to discuss the lessons Europe can learn from recent developments in Sino-American scientific relations and what the near future holds.

About the speaker: David Zweig (Ph.D., The University of Michigan, 1983) is Professor Emeritus, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Distinguished Visiting Professor of Taipei School of Economics and Political Science, National Tsinghua University, Taiwan, and Vice-President of the Center for China and Globalization (Beijing). He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard in 1984-85, and in 2013-2015 received the Humanities and Social Sciences Prestigious Fellowship, Research Grants Council of Hong Kong. For fifteen years, he directed the Center on China's Transnational Relations at HKUST. 

The event is organized by the Lise Meitner Research Group ‘China in the Global System of Science’ and the Berlin Contemporary China Network. It will primarily be held on-site. It will be possible to follow the event online via Zoom. Please note that online, only passive participation (via the chat function) will be possible. 

Please register at the following link for online participation: https://eu02web.zoom-x.de/webinar/register/WN_RJtpvyi-R9aNCc0HEP2vgw