U.S. Downturn Fuels China's Rise

Date: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 7:02 PM

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U.S. corporations hired H-1B visa Chinese engineers(and no doubt provided
additional state of the art training to) while turning a blind eye towards
retaining, retraining, and hiring U.S. born engineers. Now these same
Chinese engineers are taking their state of the art knowledge and
experience, and their Chinese-based OEM connections back to China. This is
just one of many example of how the H-1B program is degrading our
technological infrastructure.

http://www.e-insite.net/semiconductor/index.asp?layout=article&articleid=CA245477&spacedesc=news

U.S. Downturn Fuels China's Rise
By Gale Morrison -- 9/20/2002
Electronic News

Economic pain in the United States is turning into China’s gain.

Rampant layoffs and sluggish sales here, coupled with mainland China’s
economic expansion and billion-dollar commitment to broadband deployment,
are driving American-trained Chinese engineers back home. Making matters
worse, the lack of connections back to China is hurting smaller U.S.
companies’ chances of winning critical contracts with booming OEMs there.

The flood of Chinese returning home is especially painful because
repatriation was not their intention, executives say. But U.S. companies can
’t keep them on the payroll, and because they were not employed long enough
to see their H1-B visas become green cards, they see no other option.

"Before, engineering school graduates would stay in the United States," says
Leo Wong, director of marketing at BitzBlitz Inc. in San Jose, a transceiver
specialist with close ties to Chinese networking giant Huawei. "They would
find a job, get their H1-B visa, and keep working and get their green card.
Now they are being laid off in the middle of their H1-B. They have no other
choice but to leave. The unemployment rate is so high. It’s pretty brutal
out here."

But that’s only part of the story. While Chinese engineers are being pushed
out of this country, there’s also the pull of a booming market in China for
the first time.

For more, please see Monday’s edition of Electronic News.

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