China Rolls Out Its First Talent Visa as the US Retreats on H-1Bs. The Chinese government unveiled a program to woo foreign talent just as the US cracked down on H-1Bs with a $100,000 fee. The move immediately provoked xenophobic backlash.
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Good move from the Chinese government and I think the CCP is in a place to handle the backlash, but it’s to be expected. Japan has so few immigrants yet is having their own xenophobic movement lol
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Eh the complaints from the population will amount to largely nothing since I suspect this will mostly apply to overseas Chinese anyways. This really just smoothens the process of those returning to China than anything else.
> On the other hand, a considerable amount of the commentary about the program was tinged with nationalist and xenophobic rhetoric—if not outright racism. Chenchen Zhang, an international relations professor at Durham University, noted that some Chinese influencers were spreading conspiracy theories that Indians were planning to use the visa to immigrate to China en masse. “The amount of racism is insane,” Zhang said in a Bluesky post.
> The backlash was seemingly intense enough to prompt a response in the Global Times, a state media tabloid known for its nationalist slant. The K visa showcases “a more open and confident China in the new era to the world,” the paper argued. The article took pains to stress that the program is very different from the H-1B system in the US: “The H-1B visa is widely regarded as a work visa designed to meet the needs of US industries for skilled professionals,” the article said. “By contrast, China’s K visa is intended to promote exchanges and cooperation between young Chinese and foreign science and technology professionals.”
China government fighting xenophobia is so weird.
These visas sound nice and all, but I don’t see westerners queuing for 9-9-6 work weeks.