Fears China, Russia are trying to poach fired US government scientists
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Rebecca Trager2025-03-14T14:45:00
America’s rivals are trying to capitalise on what they see as a ‘vulnerable’ moment of mass federal layoffs at science agencies
Countries like China and Russia are trying to lure and hire away the thousands of researchers and scientists working in US federal agencies that have been laid off by the Trump administration the over last month or so. That’s the warning from Sudip Parikh, who chairs a task force of the non-partisan Science and Technology Action Committee that released a Vision for American Science and Technology (Vast) in February.