China offers 10-year visas to 'high end talent'

Post by client4 » Fri, Jan 05, 2018, 2:59 PM UTC

strebler wrote: post #13

inDigiNeous wrote: post #8

Hearing all the negative stuff about China recently, like the online censorship, dictatorship, stories about people not caring about human life, like hearing it's common that if you accidentally drive over people, many will backup to finish the job so they wont' have to pay the insurance for rest of the life and seeings stories like babies on the streets and nobody caring, why would anyone want to work in China? Are…

I've lived and done a fair amount of business there. The car thing is true. I would say people there care a lot more about their immediate network of friends / family and a lot less about anyone else. It's very safe to live there, but at the same time everyone's trying to take advantage of everyone else - literal and metaphorical pickpockets are everywhere. The inherent lack of trust makes workplace environments real…

Post by brango » Fri, Jan 05, 2018, 3:08 PM UTC

probablybroken wrote: post #31

seanmcdirmid wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The apartment thing...it’s very rare. Most likely to remind you to register at the PSB, I was always late and warned a few times, they never tried to fine me or anything. They aren’t really “checking” on you, honestly I’ve had worse experiences in Switzerland than China where they really do check on you (like the television tax guy entering my apartment to check that I really didn’t have a TV!). Beijing was actually…

Television licencing property checks are normal in the UK as well - I've had a few inspectors demand access to my home to verify that I wasn't watching TV illegally. For a long time there used to be "TV detector vans" that would drive around areas supposedly detecting TVs in use in unlicensed properties - I believe it was ( still is? ) illegal to publish any information surrounding the efficacy of these vehicles ( Ob…

Post by mirajshah » Fri, Jan 05, 2018, 3:10 PM UTC

jijji wrote: post #18

What they don't tell you is that two of those ten years will be spent in a secret gulag for writing a wechat private message to your friend about how you dont like the great firewall of china. Thanks, but I'll pass.

Post by [deleted] » Fri, Jan 05, 2018, 3:13 PM UTC

BoorishBears wrote: post #44

jijji wrote: post #18

What they don't tell you is that two of those ten years will be spent in a secret gulag for writing a wechat private message to your friend about how you dont like the great firewall of china. Thanks, but I'll pass.

You could also just... not send WeChat private messages to your friend about how you don't like the great firewall of China. I mean, I don't support the Firewall in the slightest, but I think the kind person who wants to send messages like that is exactly who they want to keep out by keeping brutal punishments for dissident behavior. I've always felt if you go to a country you should respect it's laws, and if you fee…

Post by ChrisSD » Fri, Jan 05, 2018, 3:18 PM UTC

probablybroken wrote: post #31

seanmcdirmid wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The apartment thing...it’s very rare. Most likely to remind you to register at the PSB, I was always late and warned a few times, they never tried to fine me or anything. They aren’t really “checking” on you, honestly I’ve had worse experiences in Switzerland than China where they really do check on you (like the television tax guy entering my apartment to check that I really didn’t have a TV!). Beijing was actually…

Television licencing property checks are normal in the UK as well - I've had a few inspectors demand access to my home to verify that I wasn't watching TV illegally. For a long time there used to be "TV detector vans" that would drive around areas supposedly detecting TVs in use in unlicensed properties - I believe it was ( still is? ) illegal to publish any information surrounding the efficacy of these vehicles ( Ob…