Some questions I have:
- Do people in China have to boil their water before drinking it? I’ve found sources dated as recent as 2012 saying this
- If I were to move to China, what western media would I have to be prepared to not have access to anymore? Just as one example, could I still follow/listen to American & European rock/metal bands?
- After several years doing jobs that I didn’t like very much, I finally recently moved to a job in an area that I like a lot (renewable energy). How easy would it be for me to find similar work in China? Sometimes it seems like the only work Americans can find in China is as English teachers.
- Why does China accept so few immigrants? (500-2000 per year, vs about 1,000,000/year accepted by the USA, and 600,000-2,000,000/yr accepted by Germany)
- Regarding sex, dating & family, is China generally more liberal than the US, more conservative, or about the same?
- Does housing work in China similarly to how it works in the US? How much of their income do Chinese people typically spend on rent/homeownership?
we’re the last thing china needs
No the Chinese dont want western immigrants and likely will not accept them.
“Why does China accept so few immigrants? (500-2000 per year, vs about 1,000,000/year accepted by the USA, and 600,000-2,000,000/yr accepted by Germany)”
Because on a per capita basis China is still quite poor, so they A) dont have the resources B) dont have the historical draw and capital flows that the imperial core does, and C) Anti communist propaganda is still quite strong around the world.
No the Chinese dont want western immigrants and likely will not accept them.
Well that sucks. So basically I’m stuck here paying taxes to the wrong side of the new cold war, and there’s no way to get out
Look, you can either engage in adventurism or start meaningfully organizing. One of those is guaranteed to get you killed and probably not work, the other only might get you killed and could possibly work. Those are the options we western leftists have. Agitate in your circles, materially support resistance movements, and prepare yourself for a shitty time. Global communism isn’t going to build itself and it’s not going to be easy. Our position in all of this sucks but someone’s gotta do it - may as well be you and me comrade.
My opinion is you should 100% disregard every opinion here calling you a coward or telling you that China doesn’t need you.
I would say with moderate confidence the Chinese know what they need more than you, me or anyone else here, if they need you then you’ll find a job opportunity for you and that is all that there is to say about it, don’t tie your conscious around meaningless philosophical arguments, with a population that large I think they’ll be just fine if they take one more person along for the ride, and if they realy don’t you then they are also big and mature enough to tell you/us to fuck off.
After several years doing jobs that I didn’t like very much, I finally recently moved to a job in an area that I like a lot (renewable energy). How easy would it be for me to find similar work in China? Sometimes it seems like the only work Americans can find in China is as English teachers.
It is true that there is an abundance of teaching jobs be aware that it is always easier to find a job in a country you already live in than not. This is how it usually works in the west assuming the immigration bureaucracy is just as bad then going to China as a teacher and then using your previous work experience to search for better jobs while you are already living there is a very good idea if you can do it, worst case scenario is you have to come back after a few years.
I think you should be aware that some knowledge of Chinese is going to be a good advantage even if not required at your job it will help making your stay there much more enjoyable, the earlier you start the better.
If you are still serious then one thing you can do is look around in Chinese learning communities and find a speaking partner to study and then also ask these sorts of questions they’ll tell you all about living there so two birds one stone.
Should western leftists be trying to move to China?
No. You’re not a leftist if you flee from the fight for revolution within your country, you’re a coward.
Those are people whom plenty of them fought and died there and plenty of those that went came back to form the core of their nation’s party of a new type to fight for their liberation in conjunction with the comintern.
Those people weren’t cowards. People who flee from the struggle are.
Yeah, people call me a doomer but look: there are ALREADY militias run by psychos who have done multiple tours as occupiers in the Middle East. The cops are allied with those guys, and the general public is largely uninterested in socialism. Between the guy who got smoked by PPD for defending himself against a Proud Boy and people like Rittenhouse essentially being cleared to do as much violence as is necessary to quell any nascent leftist movement it’s clear that if and when the government becomes openly fascist that we are going to get absolutely slaughtered. I’m not even talking about explicit leftists either, a lot of these freaks are pretty open about wanting to exterminate everyone to the right of Ronald Reagan.
As much as I admire some of the efforts we’ve seen in the last two years we’re not going to be able to mobilize any kind of serious response to the right wing any time soon. The schoolboard takeovers by QNuts don’t face any resistance. A lot of their grassroots organizing doesn’t get anywhere near as much pushback as it should. These guys want to fucking kill you, and they’ve been ready to do it, regardless of how hoggish most of these paste eating idiots are they still hold and are supported by the reins of power and you don’t have to be very smart or resourceful to do violence to largely defenseless people.
I’d like for someone to tell me I’m wrong but those guys are ready to fuckin go…we’re just barely getting started, and we have over a century of brainwashing to overcome. People say that declining material conditions are going to magically turn everyone into a leftists but as we saw with Trump this is clearly not the case for about half the population…
