{"id":136306,"date":"2025-09-11T13:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T13:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=136306"},"modified":"2025-09-11T13:00:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T13:00:08","slug":"why-did-harvard-top-mathematician-liu-jun-leave-the-us-for-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=136306","title":{"rendered":"Why did Harvard top mathematician Liu Jun leave the US for China?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostWhen it was officially announced in late August that statistician Liu Jun had left Harvard University and joined Tsinghua University in Beijing, speculation ran rampant.<br \/>\nWas it political tension? Research funding cuts? A backlash against Chinese academics in the US?<br \/>\nFor Liu, the answer is simple \u2013 and deeply personal.<br \/>\nIt \u201chas nothing to do with Trump\u201d, he said in an email to the South China Morning Post, explaining that his decision was not out of political protest or professional&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3325154\/why-did-harvard-top-mathematician-liu-jun-leave-us-china?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostWhen it was officially announced in late August that statistician Liu Jun had left Harvard University and joined Tsinghua University in Beijing, speculation ran&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136306"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=136306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}