Literary labour of love: The pop-up bookstore is part of a two-month event held at Sinan Mansion in Shanghai. — China Daily/Asia News Network
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More U.S.-trained Chinese-born talent are leaving lucrative Silicon Valley gigs to try their luck back in China, Bloomberg reports. The exodus is helping fuel competition between the U.S. and China in artificial intelligence and chip making, two areas where “Team China” has expressed interest in dominating in the years to come. But on a more existential level the talent migration is a signal to Silicon Valley that more and more tech talent see digital Shangri La sitting closer to Shanghai than to San Francisco. “You’re just working as a cog in the huge machine and you never get to see the big picture,” says one of China’s returning sons, an alumni of Microsoft Corp., Facebook and Google. “My friends back in China were thinking about the economy and vast social trends,” he said. “Even if I get killed by the air and live shorter for ten years, it’ll still be better.”
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