Comments by "Peter Jacobsen" (@pjacobsen1000) on "Why Beijing struggles to attact foreign talent" video.

  1. "We welcome you to come and live and work in China. We have opened our doors. All you need is a Nobel Prize".
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  2.  @lijackson-x6r  Aren't you confusing 'work permit' with 'permanent residency'? Those are two very different things. The requirement for a work permit and a limited residency visa are not so high. What the video talks about is PERMANENT RESIDENCY.
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  3.  @momononymous  "Where even is South China". You take a map of China, arm yourself with a compass, then take the southernmost part of China. That is south China. I hope that was helpful. As for the name of the newspaper, it may have been chosen to differentiate it from the older, and more popular 'North China Daily News' which was based in Shanghai from 1850 until it was ordered by the Communist Party to stop publishing in 1951.
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  4.  @momononymous  Sure, but that doesn't prevent media in other parts of the country to report on it, just like the LA Times can report on things going on in Washington DC.
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  5.  @kaleeysmith8801  "SCMP is just british aligned U.S interests news". SCMP is owned by Alibaba, a Chinese company. The Managing Editor of SCMP, Yonden Lhatoo, who is regularly featured here is hardly pro-America. But perhaps the SCMP is not nearly nationalistic enough for your taste. I guess you'll have to read the Global Times instead.
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  6. There are also fewer foreigners living in Shanghai than before, but I don't know the exact numbers. It's just clear from walking in the streets, seeing memberships fall and WeChat groups shrink.
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  7. Few of them are 'foreign talent'. Most are simply foreigners working in foreign-invested enterprises.
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  8. Lots of Shanghainese look down on other Chinese. What should we do about that?
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  9. From their owner, Alibaba. But mostly from subscriptions and ads, like all other media.
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  10.  @tamoc2354  "We welcome you to visit, but not to stay". Yes, that does seem to be the message, but then why would they promote the permanent residency to begin with? It seems contradictory.
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  11.  @tamoc2354  So because the media and the foreigners want to get permanent residency, China's government decides to grant that, even if they don't want to? Why are they letting themselves be so easily manipulated?
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  12. I know of one other person who got his permanent residence last year. He posted it on WeChat and it caused a (very local) sensation.
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  13.  @robintan502  "tenure professors have moved with their whole team to China". I'm sure there are some of them, too, but still, most are just business people working in regular industries. As for 'returning Chinese', I don't think China counts those as 'foreign talent' if they still have Chinese citizenship.
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