How & why India checkmated Huawei’s salami-slicing moves in top tech schools

In February 2019, a report of the US Congress Subcommittee titled ‘China’s Impact on the US Education System’ noted how China “recruits overseas researchers and scientists” through multiple routes, forcing the country to draw a red line despite some tactical rapprochement on other fronts. China’s ‘Thousand Talents Program’ to hire top overseas scientists in areas like AI and chips was shuttered down, varsities in the US were told to dial down on Chinese funding, Confucius centres were asked to wrap up and Chinese firms from Huawei to ZTE came under an unforgiving radar.