Quote Originally Posted by Gandalf View Post
@walrus

Is it true that a foreign husband/wife is not allowed to work in China? This would basically make them visitors only.

To me it sounds like we need to get tough on more than trade, but deal with the Chinese masses who take advantage of our own far more generous systems.

It sounds really difficult to be a foreigner married to a Chinese person in China. Kind of cruel in fact.

Korea and Japan are much fairer in this regard. Of course the Chinese are the biggest immigrant group and lots of illegals.
The laws are very strange in china. Investment and any type of immigration are very strict compared to us, definitely difficult for an American individual to do business/employment although I know a few who have and did very well but it required handing over some shillings to certain officials. One of my buddies opened a store selling bicycles. He specializes in the expensive well built ones and he did extremely well. Although another guy I knew wanted to take advantage of the huge demand for concrete in China. He set up a cargo ship delivery of concrete to a port in China, got proper documents and permission and when the ship arrived they gave him some bullshit and would not allow it to dock. I don’t know how much he lost but it had to be substantial. Trump gets so much shit about trying to even things out a bit with China but it is such a one way street and has been for so long it makes sense for him to do something