You can’t settle down there. You can live there for a time. The very fact that someone even thinks that this is a question that can be asked about China reveals

You can’t settle down there. You can live there for a time. The very fact that someone even thinks that this is a question that can be asked about China reveals a lot about how little those outside China know what it is. This viewing other countries though the lens of your own is not just a western thing. I once shared with a chinese collegue about my plans to travel to various cities throughout canada upon my return, living here and there, and they were very concerned. When I asked what they were concerned about they asked me if I had managed to get all my various permissions papers from work units, city councils, provincial authorities, etc. He was aghast when I told him none of that is needed in canada. He told me that they had been told other countries operated just like China does.