Dunno, if I was fairly successful and living in China, I might be a little concerned:Chroy Changvarite wrote: ↑Sat Jan 27, 2024 7:25 pmI’ve worked in Shanghai and there’s no “climate of fear” just absolute nonsense,foreigners dancing on the bar at Zapata’s with girls going around giving free shots of tequila didn’t seem very scared to me at all,plus the prerequisite bar girls hanging around looking for stragglers?spitthedog wrote: ↑Sat Jan 27, 2024 6:48 pmWhat about the thieving though??....Bong Burgundy wrote: ↑Sat Jan 27, 2024 6:48 am
Vietnam’s plentiful, young manufacturing workers are diligent, reasonably well educated and half as expensive as those in Chinese coastal areas. Vietnam, unlike Indonesia and the Philippines at times, has had no Islamist terrorism, notes a factory boss. It offers fat incentives to foreign investors, both explicit (tax breaks, cheap land) and de facto (high-tech workers were among the first to get covid vaccines). And although it is a one-party state like China, it is friendlier. Expatriates in Beijing complain of a climate of fear; those in Vietnam seem relaxed.
Vietnam spoke Chinese for 2,000 years or more before they broke away that’s why they hate and distrust the Chinese,it was a foreig monk I think French that invented their language,which has 7 tones as opposed to Thai’s 5 tones?
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-68078586
https://www.reuters.com/world/foreign-n ... 023-10-11/
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-67914611
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Heywood