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4 Apr, 4 tweets, 1 min read
The ironic thing about people saying "you should go back to China" is that Chinese people going back to China is exactly what America should be deathly afraid of.
The geopolitical DISASTER (for America) is when a ton of really talented and accomplished Chinese people decide, "Hey, I think I'm going to move back to China now because of all the opportunities there to build a great company / do amazing research / change the world."
In the past decade, based on numbers alone, I think literally the *majority* of my most talented ethnically Chinese colleagues have gone back to China for work-related reasons.
Same thing applies to India.

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