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5h09un · Joined: 01 Jul 2010 Posts: 140

http://chinadailymail.com/2013/07/08/chinas-new-visa-laws-target-expats/

i doubt many teachers will see the worst of these changes because any school that screws its foreign teachers like that will probably never be able to recruit another one.

still, i wouldn't want to be one of the unlucky few. Shocked

wonderingjoesmith · Joined: 19 Aug 2012 Posts: 910 Location: Guangzhou

I wonder how well the local institutions and the legal system work, when it comes to litigations. I can see a local employer and his fine lawyer full of resources awaiting anything, but I find it difficult to picture a jobless foreign national on a work permit (sponsored by the employer) in the country. Or, is it that foreigners, who file against their employers, will be provided some local government assistance?

GuestBob · Joined: 18 Jun 2011 Posts: 270

I have read this article before and I think it's scaremongering.

The whole tone of the article is alarmist, for example:

GeminiTiger · Posted: Sat Jul 13, 2013 7:20 am Post subject:

http://chinadailymail.com/

this site is junk. it's worse than

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/

mwaltman · Joined: 07 May 2013 Posts: 78

The referenced piece is a bunch of garbage. Hardly anything resembling actual journalism. It's filled with attacks on China, the system, the government, and so on. It's overloaded with assumptions that the foreign employees are holier-than-thou and it's China attacking them. China is filled with those without an inkling of credentials, on the run from the law, unable to hold jobs in their home, western countries, and yet the article makes it sound like they are the Pope, being grilled by the authorities.

Journalism the so-called article is not.

Agreed that it is nothing other than "scaremongering." It's written by someone who has nowhere else in the world to go and is attempting to beg for sympathy for the desire and need to stay in China since they clearly cannot go anywhere else.

This is a site that should be ignored. Wikipedia has more credibility in my eyes, than this place (China Daily Mail).

Complaining about increasing policing of a "profession" by those that have no place in the "profession."

muffintop · Joined: 07 Jan 2013 Posts: 803

mwaltman · Joined: 07 May 2013 Posts: 78

"Eyepopping analysis" makes me think of the Beavis and Butthead laugh - it's most appropriate for the ridiculous of this evaluation of it.

wonderingjoesmith · Joined: 19 Aug 2012 Posts: 910 Location: Guangzhou

johntpartee · Joined: 02 Mar 2010 Posts: 3258

I looked up some stuff about "China Daily Mail" and they often come very close to the classic definition of yellow journalism. Not quite "Tattler"; maybe "National Enquirer". They've been known to do some reputable reporting.

Winter · Posted: Sun Jul 14, 2013 2:41 pm Post subject:

Ugh. My "friend" linked me to that piece by way of discouragement. Most entertaining are the comments: everyone who disagreed with the OP was marked as a government plant. Very mature.