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Yours is a positive take; mine is much more pessimistic. Now, companies that tutor students will have to register as non-profits and won’t be able to raise mone

Yours is a positive take; mine is much more pessimistic. Now, companies that tutor students will have to register as non-profits and won’t be able to raise money or receive investment from foreign companies. It is this last bit that really drives this policy. Banning foreign influence in tutoring is in line with Xi's continuing desire to monitor and control all aspects of thought and influence. Bloomberg reports that "all foreign tutors and foreign curriculum will also be banned."

milofeynman 5y ago
Does that mean foreign English teachers in China just lost their jobs?
- AlfeG 5y ago
  They were pretty much under high pressure already. Lot of them returned home. I guess now they have no other options and return.
- BossingAround 5y ago
  That's a lot of the buzz in TEFL communities I've seen. Not sure if it's true, but the panic is definitely there. With the rising xenophobia in China, I wouldn't advise people to do TEFL there anyways.
archibaldJ 5y ago
This makes more sense to me. It's very cheap to enforce too. After having been in China for a while, I realize policies there, when enforced, often don't directly target the population. Instead, they always target organisations and businesses. And let them shape the ecosystems people are in. This is a more efficient way of eroding the (economic and political) power of the masses. Meanwhile, the affluent and well-connected would always find a way out, either to study in Singapore or attend Harvard.