It's quite heartening to see the Chinese embrace the principles of what I refer to as cognitive elitism.
Why risk being arrested, tried, convicted, and imprisoned by the Communist Chinese Government for their political purposes?
I see. This kind of system has been in place for most developed countries including U.S.A and Canada for decades. I am actually surprised that China didn't have it till now.
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The US has a system like this but hasn't enforced it until a month ago.
Journalists in 'B' category? 'C' - if you're lucky. 'G' for get home foreign journalist.
Would this be considered foreign policy?
If age is one criteria, and if the elderly are venerated in China, might this 82-year old breeze right through the screening process?
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The veneration exist but not in hiring. I have your age and was hired in 2008 for a fine job teaching my field for a year, but that was a bit of luck. Women retire at 55 and men at 60 over here and there is resistance to hiring above those ages. N hoarm in trying it is an enriching experience in most cases.
China has been willing to accept foreigners, especially in the teaching profession, without serious criteria to very mixed results. It sounds like an effort is being made to evaluate more carefully now.
Those planning to come should likewise attempt to find out the reputation of the institutions and regions they are in contact with; that information is available on line with a search; the range is enormous.
Those planning to come should likewise attempt to find out the reputation of the institutions and regions they are in contact with; that information is available on line with a search; the range is enormous.
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Ridiculing one of the few officials that agree to speak to you in English for attribution is not likely to increase your limited access to official information (of which this article has almost none).
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China is becoming less and less attractive for foreigners. Based on my personal circle of acquaintances many have already left China or are planning to do so (me included). Environment, tighter social restrictions, slower economy, increased costs... While the government won't admit it, this is a problem for China as the local graduates and managers are often of highly questionable quality. I don't see how this visa reform will change anything. And if you wonder, I'm most likely a class B expat, not that I care as I'll be gone before this becomes relevant for me.
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USA also have a similiar system. Green card or permanent residency is given based on EB1,EB2 and EB3 skill levels. EB3 skill level (who are still skilled but not as skilled as 1 or 2 ) have to wait for 10 years to get permanent residency.So not much different from china.
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They should have gone with Alpha, Beta, and Gamma. Let's not think about what China would do with Deltas and Epsilons.
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Haha! I love the reference to Brave New World!!
Blunt terminology is so upsetting. Better to do as here where the "A's" get 'special' (see how comforting that term is?) visas, the "B's" take years and the "C's" live in eternal fear of deportation.
So much more human.
So much more human.
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They should just rank everyone in the world and if you are allowed into the country is dependent on your score.
Send all your C's (your huddled masses) to America. We take anyone.
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If I were to work in China, I would worry about the quality of the water and air. Classifying foreign workers as “Cs” might hurt their feelings, especially if they got good grades at home. They should scrap the A, B, and C, for a color or animal coding scheme. I wouldn’t mine being a blue or a Panda, but an average “C,” no way. I am from a part of the world where everyone is above average.
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How about - if you are A class. Is that not tough?
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Dividing laowai into classes? Isn't the People's Republic supposed to be working towards a classless Marxist utopia? Or is this another new aspect of "socialism with Chinese characteristics"?
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@ Michael
China moved away from Marxian doctrine in the 1990, but launched reforms than raised 500 million out of poverty. Its development has created levels of inequality matching the USA model however in the process as the top 10, 1 and .1% soar.
China moved away from Marxian doctrine in the 1990, but launched reforms than raised 500 million out of poverty. Its development has created levels of inequality matching the USA model however in the process as the top 10, 1 and .1% soar.
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Many people believe laowai enjoys/ed more privilege than Chinese do, for they at least are not bound and stratified and even flagrantly discriminated against according to their Hukou in China. This new policy may seem to be unjust to foreigners, yet it on the other hand may aim to achieve an equality between foreigners and Chinese on Chinese land. Shared inequality is not inequality, as the Chinese idiom goes.