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Good point. The Chinese passport is a symbol of Chinese pride and civilizational identity and shouldn’t be used like a credit card. However, I think the concept of Chinese version of India’s NRI, that @weig2000 brought up, may work. For India, NRI’s still make a contribution to their nation. For instance, NRI’s help support India in times of economic hardship:
NRI contribution to India’s GDP is significant especially in these times of economic slowdown. The RBI has directed the Indian banks to attract NRI deposits by giving them the options of numerous short and long term investment plans.
- Remittances - The huge Indian diaspora is responsible for a significant amount of money inflows to the country. Such money inflows are called remittances, which is the money sent by migrant workers back to their home country.
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It's not reasoning and, I don't see why it's wrong.
The rest of your post is good and I really like it. It's just not a direct response to mine above.
I think what you point out is that there need some "Chineseness" that define whether person can be considered a Chinese. This is also consistent with the long tradition of Chinese culture and thinking. I very much agree with this.
Notice in my post, I named two categories of people that should be or can be given Chinese citizenship. One is about China-born ethnic Chinese who may reside outside China and hold foreign passport. The idea is that you're a Chinese by blood (however it is defined) and you're essentially the first-generation one. The implication is that over time, your Chineseness may be diluted if you're too far removed from China even if you're Chinese by blood. This is actually consistent with some of what you described above.
The second category that I named is about foreign nationals of non-ethnic Chinese. This is more of an exception category that not many people are qualified. That's why I said there need to be conditions (and criteria). In reality, China has been practicing such policy on a case-by-case basis. They might want to codify the condition and criteria.
Eileen Gu is born to a Chinese mother and she can choose her Chinese citizenship before 18 (?) according to China's nationality law. She is qualified by law. In practice, she speaks almost at native-speaker level Mandarin and is quite familiar with Chinese culture. In fact, she has lived in China about 25% - 30% of time every year since she was three or four years old according to her. The relevant part to my post would be that if she chooses to hold dual citizenship, it should be allowed in law.
Bottom-line, China will not become an immigrant-accepting country in law or in practice.
I hope she did renounce her American citizenship before she began her commercial life. Otherwise, the US tax authority will ask for a large chunk of her money earned in China. I think she had the chance to do so in time because she took her Chinese passport at the age of 15 when she did not begin to make money.
Why does she mention only Chinese brands? There are many western brands that she represents too.
She's resident in the USA, so the IRS will tax worldwide income for individuals.
It's better to be paid into a non-US company with lower tax rates, then only pay out what you need.
If you revisit my post #913, you would realize that my post was about I disagreeing with your following notion which I have highlighted in post 913. My reply did not reject accepting foreign nationals as new Chinese citizens.
The current no-dual-citizen policy/law is rooted in historical insecurity or victimhood or resource-poor mentality.
But what if she is not resident of US anymore since before her commercial life? She can do that, right?
I see.
Keep in mind citizenship is a modern concept for China. There was no equivalent concept in ancient China. So the historical root that I refer to is really about more recent history (post-1840, say).