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Humanity does do not live in your idealised competitive global market. There is a very limited subset of US engineers who would relocate to China.

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I don’t know about USA, but many many Germans went there to work in rising automotive sector. The growth opportunities are insane while building future without internal combustion engines.

"many many"... I doubt that, but if so, that would be interesting reading. Do you have any numbers and examples? I know some of BMW's early electric car team went to China, after BMW stopped the development. But anyone else?

Dictatorship aside, the problem with Chinese companies is the glass ceiling. It is pretty much impossible to make a career there as foreigner. Very much unlike the US and EU.

No press source. Students from the same study year gladly stayed on China after some graduate programs. They weren’t Chinese. I don’t think they were the single ones. Who wants to sit in dying Europe? No innovation, no money for innovation. No will for it either.

I am pretty sure, you have zero chance as foreigner to make great career in EU. Though EU is big and diverse. About USA I don’t know. First thing I see is a big problem with visa.

In the Asian community there's talk about a bamboo ceiling here in the west for people of east and south east Asian descent.

Its the same everywhere minority will always have a ceiling or a stop on their ambitions. And off course there will always be exceptions everywhere.

China does not need random US engineers. It needs a comparatively small pool of people who have the specific know how that China currently lacks and it can probably afford to pay them some large multiple over the US market rate. Why would a massive career and financial boost not be enough to sway a significant fraction of people driven enough to become A-players in their field in the first place, especially if China is clever about how it rolls out the red carpet for them and their families?

Western expats in China have been a thing for decades. Usually theses are internal transfers within the same (Western) company.

But now with the growth of Chinese companies, this becomes an 'adventure' not so different than accepting a job abroad, wherever that might be.

The article mentions "China based employees [of existing EDA companies]", so by the sounds of it they found the limited set of people who've already relocated and made them a better (or non-refusable?) offer.

And you are saying that based on which data?

Expatriates represent less than 1% of people, and market analysts categorize movement between countries into “inbound countries” and “outbound countries”.

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