China news roundup / Nachrichten 2018-01-05 by bossel

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China news roundup / Nachrichten 2018-01-05
# English news

# [China offers 10-year visas to 'high end talent'](http://www.bbc.com/news/business-42575436)
*"According to a document from the Chinese government, those classed as "high-end foreign talent" included Nobel Prize winners, successful Olympic athletes and directors of "world famous colleges of music fine arts and arts".
Top scientists, heads of major financial institutions and professors of "overseas high-level universities" also fit the bill."*

--- Yeah, & for those of us who don't fit the bill, it only gets more complicated. Not that it's very desirable to work in China as long as Mao Jinping is in power (which might be a very long time).



# [Poaching Lake Victoria’s fish for traditional Chinese medicine](https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-017-09011-9)
*"Fishers can be paid ten times more for the bladder than the price they can achieve for fish flesh, so the flesh has become a by-catch of the bladder harvest. Large fish have large bladders, and so poachers target fish that are bigger than the 85-centimetre upper legal length limit"*

--- Donkey skin, Rhino horn, Fish bladders...
China's TCM is depleting natural resources worldwide. & for what? For the belief (!) that it will help some people's health. The only TCM application for which there is some proof that it works, is acupuncture.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Lates_niloticus_2.jpg/220px-Lates_niloticus_2.jpg
Photo via Wikipedia.



# Deutsche Nachrichten

# [Wie China mit seinem Bonitätssystem eine neue soziale Unterschicht schafft](https://www.nzz.ch/meinung/chinas-bonitaetssystem-ist-eine-soziale-monstrositaet-ld.1341923)
*"Chinesen, die einen Gerichtsbescheid mit Zahlungsaufforderung ignorieren, landen auf einer schwarzen Liste. Wer auf der Liste ist, darf keine Flugtickets buchen, keine Hochgeschwindigkeitszüge nutzen und nicht mehr in gehobenen Hotelklassen übernachten. Problematisch ist auch, dass das System ganze Familien in Sippenhaftung nimmt: Kinder, deren Eltern auf der schwarzen Liste stehen, dürfen zum Beispiel keine Privatschulen mehr besuchen."*

--- Mit moderner Technologie auf dem Weg zurück ins Mittelalter. Sippenhaft & Pranger sind nur der Anfang. Am Ende wird es wohl eine Art Kastensystem geben, mit den "Unberührbaren" ganz unten.
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