While you mention the favourable climate in Canada, in the last week, not only have the RCMP charged a local researcher with spying, but the government and the opposition are speaking about China in very hostile terms.
Scholars in the USA don't have much discrimination against each other on the basis of racial background, but the US Government dominated by bigoted politicians who are annoyed by the decline of the USA vis a vis other nations are trying everything to preserve American domination in all aspects in the globe so that those aspects of international governance that favor the USA will continue.
While you mention the favourable climate in Canada, in the last week, not only have the RCMP charged a local researcher with spying, but the government and the opposition are speaking about China in very hostile terms.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-foreign-registry-chinese-interference-1.6656875
Scholars in the USA don't have much discrimination against each other on the basis of racial background, but the US Government dominated by bigoted politicians who are annoyed by the decline of the USA vis a vis other nations are trying everything to preserve American domination in all aspects in the globe so that those aspects of international governance that favor the USA will continue.
East West, home is the best.