Probably Europe. Seems more attractive for researchers. China is probably too different to be attractive for most Americans.

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em500 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It's not too different for ethnic Chinese researchers, of which there are a lot in American STEM departments.

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Cthulhu_ 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

For a lot of people it's easier to learn English than Chinese - you wouldn't get far if you don't speak the language in China. English gets you very far in Europe though, most research institutions, universities, high end professions, etc already have English as the going language because of the international character of these places.

	▲	em500 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I think you're missing my point. China does not need to or aim to attract any researcher from anywhere. Just attracting top tier ethnic Chinese researchers and technical talent from the US is already a big unequivocal win for them. That talent pool is big: any US Math/Physics Olympiad team of the past 10-20 years is >2/3rds ethnically Chinese. And for them, Europe is not necessarily a more attractive destination than China.

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skeledrew 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Chinese are far more open to working in foreign environments/contexts that Americans are, IMO. Just look at the foreign language learning statistics: most Americans tend to only know English, unless their family was fairly recently from a non-English speaking country. Meanwhile the Chinese landing in the US tend to already have decent English education, and dive right into doing what they're there to do.

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namenotrequired 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Even if not a single researcher goes from the US to China, it may still benefit them