I’m not even sure it’s about the scentists’ views, in the first place, for some scientists. It’s more about unpredictable, politically targeted defunding, and the ignorance of the decision makers. The Trump regime has an ideology that is fundamentally hostile to science itself, and t will defund research into Earth and climate science, medical science, space science, and anything it deems either inconvenient or not immediately profitable, or that falls foul of some irrational conspiracy theory. And these decisions are made by the most ignorant people with no clue about how science can benefit a country. If China isn’t so insane and whimsical about how it decides funding in your field, it will appeal to some scientists even if they can’t speak their minds politically there. But that will vary from field to field because China does have its own restrictions on scientific research.