That guy is a proud Sinophobe.PhD citing dailymail guys. Don't they teach them critical thinking and how to appraise literature? Also, how many times are they going to beat this dead horse? It's like they WANT it to be true.
That guy is a proud Sinophobe.
PhD citing dailymail guys. Don't they teach them critical thinking and how to appraise literature? Also, how many times are they going to beat this dead horse? It's like they WANT it to be true.
House is now in recess following vote ousting McCarthy as speaker
The US House of Representatives is now in recess following to remove Republican Rep. Kevin McCarthy as speaker.
No House speaker has ever before been ousted through the passage of a resolution to remove them.
The House will now need to elect a new speaker, but there is no clear alternative who would have the support needed to win the gavel.
The fight over the speakership marks a major escalation in tensions for a House GOP conference that has been mired in infighting — and it comes just days after McCarthy successfully engineered a last-minute bipartisan effort to .
I feel like it takes a very specific kind of mentality (hint hint the self-hating kind) for a Chinese person to actively pursue emigration to a European country these days, especially a Nordic one at that. Most of the second gen diaspora Chinese I've met who grew up in Europe desperately wanted to leave.
Another politically motivated article that doesn't state all the facts. China's net emigration bottom out on 2012 due to the Great Depression and the resilient of the Chinese economy at that time. Due to COVID, 2020 and 2021 have abnormal low number of net emigration. Unless, the Western economy went into deep recession, the net emigration out of China would still be in high number for a few years.
Beside, if most of these professionals are willing to take a pay cut for emigration, then it is the best for them to leave. As most of them are probably burned out and have no ambition anymore, it is the best that their job vacancy would be opened for those young graduates that desperately wanted good paying jobs.
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In the 1980s and 1990s, when China was poor, its best and brightest sought to study and work — and stay — in the West. Emigration, on net, peaked in 1992 with more than 870,000 people leaving the country, according to the . That number fell to a low of roughly 125,000 in 2012, as China emerged from poverty to become a tech power and the world’s second-biggest economy.
The Chinese government worked hard to keep them, rolling out incentives to scientists and other skilled people. In 2016, more than 80 percent of Chinese who studied abroad returned home, according to the , up from about a quarter two decades earlier.
The trend has reversed. In 2022, despite passport and travel restrictions, more than 310,000 Chinese, on net, emigrated, according to the U.N. data. With three months to go this year, the number has reached the same level as the whole of 2022.
Ms. Zhang, 27, a computer programmer, felt the hustle culture of Silicon Valley was too similar to China’s grueling work environment. After putting in long hours at a top tech company in Shenzhen for five years, she was done with that. She also sought a country where women were treated more equally. This year, she moved to Norway. After paying taxes for three years and passing the language exam, she will get permanent residency.
Ms. Zhang said she didn’t mind that she was making about $20,000 less than in Shenzhen, and paying higher taxes and living expenses. She can finish her day at 4 p.m. and enjoy life outside work. She doesn’t worry that she will be considered too old for employment when she , a form of discrimination that many Chinese experience. She doesn’t live in constant fear that the government will roll out a policy like “zero Covid” that will turn her life on its head.
Most of the tech professionals I talked to took a pay cut when they emigrated. “I feel like I’m paying for liberty,” said Mr. Zhou, a U.S.-educated software engineer who quit his job at an autonomous-driving start-up in Beijing. He now works at an automobile company in Western Europe. “It’s worth it,” he said.
Don't see any problem for Chinese to immigrate to other countries. It is just those dumb and stupid reasons for emigration that are laughable. It is just like those Hong Kongers that left Hong Kong to GB but found out the hard way that the world is not as rosy as they think and freedom is very limited.Some people just like to see the world and travel. There's nothing wrong with that and every country has some people that want to work in a different country or retire abroad etc. Some may want an easier life, or a different life, that doesn't mean they are self hating or traitors. China is not unusual in that. The main difference between China and other Asian countries and western countries is that many western countries accept very large numbers of immigrants from different cultural backgrounds, while East Asian countries don't.
China doesn't even have a particularly high emigration rate. Net emigration of 310,000 people is about 0.22 per 1000 population. By comparison, the Germany experienced a net emigration of 83,000 Germans last year, a rate of about 1 per 1000 people. However, this has been compensated by a huge influx of foreigners, resulting in total net immigration of 1.5 million people, an extremely high rate of 1.8%. If they continue doing that, the country will be majority foreigners soon. Obviously that's not a great strategy
If China only wants Chinese people to immigrate, then there will always be net emigration until the pool of Chinese people in the world is large enough that many of them want to migrate to China because they want to live in a different place from where they've grown up and find better economic opportunities. There are just so few Chinese people outside of China compared to the population inside the country.
Don't see any problem for Chinese to immigrate to other countries. It is just those dumb and stupid reasons for emigration that are laughable. It is just like those Hong Kongers that left Hong Kong to GB but found out the hard way that the world is not as rosy as they think and freedom is very limited.
More importantly, EU isn't the same EU a decade or two ago. EU politicians have slowly destroyed their countries by embracing most radical and self sabotage policies. The way things are going in EU, these EU countries might not be relevant in a few decades from now.