Could Chinese mathematicians tip the balance in a US conference boycott?

Could Chinese mathematicians tip the balance in a US conference boycott?

Petition signed by 2,300 scholars from 80 countries urges ‘World Cup’ to be moved due to American policies towards foreign academics.

Registration Lags as Math Scholars Look to Boycott Major US-Based Congress

At the time of writing, 2,403 mathematicians from 76 countries had signed a petition to move ICM 2026 out of the United States. In the wake of World War I, relations between mathematicians who had been on opposite sides of the conflict were shaky at best. After the International Mathematical Union (IMU) held the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) in Bologna, Italy, in 1928, Canadian mathematician John Charles Fields proposed conferri…