# Thousand Talents Program **The Thousand Talents Program** is a Chinese state recruitment initiative offering funding and positions to researchers abroad, intended to attract scientific expertise to Chinese institutions. It became the center of an American research-security enforcement effort focused on undisclosed foreign affiliations by academics holding U.S. federal grants. The vault holds it as a contested case: the disclosure failures at issue were real, and the enforcement campaign also produced prosecutions that collapsed, alongside credible findings of racial profiling of researchers of Chinese descent. Both are part of the record. ## See Also - [[Chinese Influence]] - [[China]]