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AZLD4Candidate

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26. Thank you. I have first hand experience living there, married to a Chinese national
Mon May 31, 2021, 03:57 PM
May 2021

and owning a home there.

Marriage isn't mostly for love. It's mostly a business contract between two families. Usually, there is a bride price, meaning the groom and the family are actually buying the woman because the daughter's family will scream "you're taking her away. What is our compensation for it?" If you don't pay it, the marriage is off and you can and will get sued for whatever the bride's family determines is the offense (usually it's loss of face).

One thing Chinese men are doing is buying their wives from vietnam (if they aren't wealthy) or from Ukraine and Russia (if they are because a blond, blue eyed white wife is LOADS of mian zi). then they are given a "spouse visa," but you can't work legally on one of those (I know. I have one because China changed work visa law requirements during COVID19 and I was denied a new work visa residence permit), so the foreign spouse becomes pretty much a slave to the chinese spouse. . .one word from the Chinese spouse and the marriage ends, the foreigner is arrested and fined out the ying-yang, then deported with a ten year black list. Oh, and the deportation is at the cost of the foreigner too.

And again, I lived there. I'm glad what I saw all over China is negated by American news sources. I guess my eyes lied to me.

Well, I guess I haven't been paying attention, I thought families were still limited to just one Rhiannon12866 May 2021 #1
Just off the top of my head BumRushDaShow May 2021 #2
A super quick Google search result on "China's one girl policy" progree May 2021 #4
Thanks for the search BumRushDaShow May 2021 #7
That's what happens when.... paleotn May 2021 #14
Why Does It Seem the Birth Rate Goes Up modrepub May 2021 #13
I read somewhere that China will pass the US as the #1 economy for most of the century. Renew Deal May 2021 #3
How about Automation and how that would affect the jobs they think these future JI7 May 2021 #5
population should decrease lookyhereyou May 2021 #6
They should have thought through the one child policy first jimfields33 May 2021 #9
I agree. And why I always say a world economy based on perpetual growth means we'll never Hugh_Lebowski May 2021 #23
I agree. But certainly not by government mandates. GulfCoast66 May 2021 #34
It's even thornier than just a falling population mainer May 2021 #8
more unattached males is never good. mopinko May 2021 #10
My mother always used to say BumRushDaShow May 2021 #12
probably why we needed to invent mopinko May 2021 #15
Believe it or not BumRushDaShow May 2021 #16
That also impacts global capital markets paleotn May 2021 #17
Single chinese men save? Where do you hear that? AZLD4Candidate May 2021 #21
Getting married or not getting married is the kicker. paleotn May 2021 #22
Thank you. I have first hand experience living there, married to a Chinese national AZLD4Candidate May 2021 #26
Pushed the brake pedal a little too hard for too long and undershot. paleotn May 2021 #11
I've read that the young couples with 2 incomes in the more urban cities dont want children onetexan May 2021 #18
While the Chinese government are idiots, the people tend to me more pragmatic (if they haven't AZLD4Candidate May 2021 #19
On the discussion on the 'dangers' of surplus men ... TomWilm May 2021 #20
Japan and South Korea are already in trouble dalton99a May 2021 #24
China needs to reinstate the one child policy. roamer65 May 2021 #25
I Agree GB_RN May 2021 #28
Yup. Definitely. roamer65 May 2021 #30
Yes, What Could Go Wrong Here? GB_RN May 2021 #27
In reality, almost now families will have even two children, let alone three. PoindexterOglethorpe May 2021 #29
The largest and most effective birth control device is INFLATION. roamer65 May 2021 #31
its interesting that the GOP and their rich masters are all about stopping abortions yet they love yaesu May 2021 #32
Our own birth rate is way down too. summer_in_TX May 2021 #33
Years ago, an elderly family friend who was a history professor at the University of Michigan... ExTex Jun 2021 #35
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