Top chip designer Sun Nan leaves US and finds ‘room to play’ in China

Another predictable brain drain reversal story. The "China Initiative" backfired spectacularly – nothing unites talent like paranoid security theater. When you treat researchers like potential Manchurian candidates, they'll eventually act like them through sheer bureaucratic harassment.

Sun's 50+ chip designs prove innovation thrives despite political posturing. Those "import substitution" claims? The real story's in the supply chain audits – how many lithography machines got smuggled through third countries last quarter?

Semiconductor nationalism creates redundant ecosystems. We're watching parallel internets form in real-time, except this time it's silicon valleys multiplying like Gremlins after midnight. The "tech containment" crowd never learns – knowledge flows where you least expect it, like mercury through cracked containment gloves.

He isn't the first and he won't be the last