If you travel to China, be aware of an exit ban
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If you travel to China, be aware of an exit ban
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Re: If you travel to China, be aware of an exit ban
#2The US State Department also warns about this:
> "Reconsider travel to Mainland China due to the arbitrary enforcement of local laws, including in relation to exit bans, and the risk of wrongful detentions."
https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/...
Re: If you travel to China, be aware of an exit ban
#3> In the old days, we would direct people to drive to Vietnam in the trunk of a car, and it worked.
Pretty incredible that a law firm would actually recommend this strategy!
Re: If you travel to China, be aware of an exit ban
#4> In the old days, we would direct people to drive to Vietnam in the trunk of a car, and it worked. Pretty incredible that a law firm would actually recommend this strategy!
I guess it's more related to the fair process inside of China
Or at least, the lack of it
Re: If you travel to China, be aware of an exit ban
#5Note that the linked webpage is just a mess of text that was clearly created as SEO-focused advertising for this law firm. It is not any kind of serious reference on the China exit bans phenomenon.
Re: If you travel to China, be aware of an exit ban
#6The US State Department also warns about this: > "Reconsider travel to Mainland China due to the arbitrary enforcement of local laws, including in relation to exit bans, and the risk of wrongful detentions." https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/...
Can anyone speak to the state department’s ability to repatriate you if China enforces an exit ban while in country?
Re: If you travel to China, be aware of an exit ban
#7The US State Department also warns about this: > "Reconsider travel to Mainland China due to the arbitrary enforcement of local laws, including in relation to exit bans, and the risk of wrongful detentions." https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/...
Can anyone speak to the state department’s ability to repatriate you if China enforces an exit ban while in country?
the state department is a diplomatic apparatus, rather than an enforcement apparatus. They will have to declare war, or some other kind of sanctions, and hope that the country under sanction will comply.
I doubt that the US will do it for small numbers of citizens, esp. after these travel advisories given. These travel advisories are essentially saying that you're on your own if you get fucked by china, so don't visit there.
Re: If you travel to China, be aware of an exit ban
#8The US State Department also warns about this: > "Reconsider travel to Mainland China due to the arbitrary enforcement of local laws, including in relation to exit bans, and the risk of wrongful detentions." https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/...
Can anyone speak to the state department’s ability to repatriate you if China enforces an exit ban while in country?
> Can anyone speak to the state department’s ability to repatriate you if China enforces an exit ban while in country?
The state department has essentially no such general capability beyond negotiation, and in the case of China, specifically, in practice the US government as a whole has little beyond that, too. (They might be able to, if interested, come up with an ad hoc and probably high-risk workaround outside of diplomatic channels if sufficiently motivated and the right confluence of other factors, but I wouldn’t rely on it.)
Re: If you travel to China, be aware of an exit ban
#9Don't travel to China.
Re: If you travel to China, be aware of an exit ban
#10The US State Department also warns about this: > "Reconsider travel to Mainland China due to the arbitrary enforcement of local laws, including in relation to exit bans, and the risk of wrongful detentions." https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/...
Can anyone speak to the state department’s ability to repatriate you if China enforces an exit ban while in country?
The US does not have a sterling reputation for getting their people out of sticky situations in foreign countries... Oh but when they do, they expect to be paid for it.
One would have thought that continuing to pay tax to the motherland despite living overseas would help cover the cost of one's evacuation, but I guess not.