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How China Is Hoping to Attract Tech Talent

Lauren Goode, Louise Matsakis, Zeyi Yang

created: Oct. 9, 2025, 8:39 p.m. | updated: Oct. 14, 2025, 3:51 p.m.

And right now, the only model they can look after is the United States, which has been building on a ton of immigrant talent to build the AI industry. I mean, what do you think are some of the other challenges that China will face as it tries to roll out this K visa and attract foreign talent? Louise Matsakis: I mean, I think the main thing is just that China, like Zeyi said, is absolutely not a country of immigrants. So, the number of people who come from Africa, or North America, or Europe is just astonishingly small compared to the population size of China. I think it could happen, and I think it's likely that it will happen as the shifts of global power tilt away from the US.

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