I’m not even sure it’s about the scentists’ views, in the first place, for many 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, it will appeal to scientists even if they can’t speak their minds politically there.