Even after the recent Hukou reforms, permanent residency for immigrants is nonexistant (less than 20k in the past 2 decades). It feels like such a huge own-goal in the current historical moment to miss out on attracting migrants, especially the now unemployed technical experts and scientists in deindustrializing nations. Have they perhaps been infuenced by the current wave of fascist hysteria in the G7? (By which I mean: the CPC proactively stopping such a movement from forming in China?) Are they high on their own supply about being a "civilizational state"? Are they scared? Are they CHUDS?
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It genuinely doesn't make economic sense at this point. For example, West Europe would honestly be a sterile crater at this point without immigrants from the past 20 years due to population decline.
The best reason I could come up with is that they fear backlash from the precariously employed youths and xenophobic elders.
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Historical inertia is probably a large factor here. It would be somewhat strange to switch from population control to population bolstering policies in under 2 decades.
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Vietnam is somewhat similar to China in governance, but is more leinient with immigration than even Europe.
The last I heard is from my girlfriend who worked like that last year. So no. It's still there.
In your second paragraph you mix up stuff. There is a relation between inflation and the strength of the currency, of course. But that food prices in the us grow by 33% (jsut taking your numbers) is not because of currency exchanges. Don't look at some small figures.
Maybe look at something like that: if a country exports 10% of GDP and imports 10% of GDP, then a currency change by 1%, which does not influence the trade too much changes the good available by roughly one percent. How this is distributed depends on the policies of the countries of course
In Germany the relatively weak currency due to the euro zone created one of the biggest exports markets ever, however the profits didn't go to the workers but to the factory owners. What happens in china?
China has a trade surplus of 5,5% of GDP. What does this mean? Of 100 goods that are produced in china only 94,5 remain there. Or in other words the Chinese people give net 5,5% of their working power to the rest of the world. So yes, they are currently being exploited. So why does the government do that? Of course with the added foreign currency reserve they can in the future turn it around and equalize, but currently they are holding back the consumption possibilities of the Chinese people.
sorry but "My girlfriend" said isn't a legal ruling. Maybe some people still work 6 12 hour shifts a week but it is illegal to demand it of workers.
I'm not mixing stuff up you are. I said 33% of americans own a home by 30. I didn't give percentages on food inflation because rising food costs are infinitely worse than falling food costs.
That is not what Trade Surplus is. Trade surplus is how much more money a country makes from exports than it buys in imports. It has nothing to do with how much is produced it has to do with how much money changed hands. Trade Surplus just a nation's "profits." Like how a factory spends less on its feed stock and wages than it makes after selling its finished product. They don't just give the extra stuff away. They get Foreign Exchange for it and they can save for a rainy day, Invest overseas, (aka the belt and road initiative) or buy gold. (Which China has been doing hard for the last few years)
No. Chinese workers are working as hard as the do for a home and food and other parts of living life. They get what they work for. Chinese exporters exporters are making more money selling stuff outside the country than they spend outside the country. they too are getting paid. Measuring it as a percentage of GDP makes no sense. The difference between how China measures GDP and how usa measure it make it useless number. GDP is a meaningless term. (The usa makes up fake transactions an the counts them as GDP, like a family who owns a house is counted as paying themselves rent for the house and that is added to the GDP, every single house. and there are a million other tricks like that. China doesn't do that shit and if they counted their GDP the way usa does it would be like 3x as much)
No. you can't determine whether the workers of a nation are exploited or not based off the Trade surpluys to gdp ratio. That is a fundamental misunderstanding of both those metrics.
In China the workers are getting less exploited over time and their living conditions are getting better and this isn't just "on average" it is everyone. Everyone other than extreme cases can get an education, buy a house everyone, afford food and the few who can't do those things get the assistance they need.
That is why the capitalists want to destroy China. If workers in the capitalist nations realize that there is another way, where everybody's life is getting better instead of getting worse they will demand that and they will take it from the capitalists by force.
And that is why China needs to save up a store of wealth, because the capitalists are getting scared and they need to destroy China before the workers kill the capitalists.
China has a plan and the top priority of the plan is to not get destroyed by imperialism. Second priority is raising the living standards of people because their example is what will destroy imperialism from the inside. Once imperialism has been destroyed and China is not under threat, things will be different.
tldr. No. You need to read way more about economics or forget everything you think you know about economics.