The Peoples' Republic of China.....

Great people and land. But my long term interest in visiting once more, this time to teach and to learn the language, is waning, as I watch Hong Kong. The Party bosses simply seem most interested in a gross misbalance betwen putting food in mouths, and personal political freedoms. Of course, it's always a trade off, even here in the West. We must all look closely to goings on there, into our own hearts, and decide. Regrets.
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The cut off age for teaching in China is 60, unless you are already employed by a university or college and have an "A" class work permit. I'm 64 and even with an "A" class permit, due to a health issue cannot renew my contract.
Compulsory health insurance is paid by the employer for all foreign teachers, it gets expensive after 60 so the medical checks get more important and therefore not viable if the foreigner has a possible health risk.
With regard to HK, the central government is playing a psychological waiting game, if they storm in with soldiers they run the risk of agitating a far larger problem and the wrath of most of the world, waiting it out and letting HK deal with their internal problem is a wise move.
Thanks, and spot on, RL. With so many millennia of history, they know about patience. But the HK leadership seems weak and unimaginative, even while under Beijing's wings. And I fear the Party still has many influential hotheads who still have that Tiannemen Jones kicking about, No?
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