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There are other factors at play. For one, I have a Chinese wife who has elderly parents (not in Shanghai), for now they fare well, but we might need to look aft

There are other factors at play. For one, I have a Chinese wife who has elderly parents (not in Shanghai), for now they fare well, but we might need to look after them sooner or later. Another factor is that I have a few years contract in a startup I care much about, sure we could do remote, but this would be a blow to them. I will try to solve these and see if we can move to Taiwan or somewhere else relatively close by.

rapind 5y ago
I wish you the best my friend. Hopefully you can work out the logistics, because wow… it sounds horrible.
ailun 5y ago
I'm in a similar situation, or I will be eventually. How hard is it for Chinese nationals to move to Taiwan, do you know?
- mstaoru 5y ago
  As far as I understand (unconfirmed directly), as soon as you have an ARC or a Gold Card (my plan), you can bring in your spouse (regardless of nationality) and children (I don't have any).
Volrath89 5y ago
Honest and naïve question, wouldn't you be afraid that the mainland Chinese government goes to war to take Taiwan back? Or is this exaggeration from the western media and actually we are very far from a full scale invasion?
- mstaoru 5y ago
  There is a possibility, but I believe, if anything, it's either very far away or even completely impossible. I'm not a strategist, and trying to stay as far as I can from politics, but unlike Russian invasion of Ukraine, where other countries utter strongly-worded sentences while buying as much Russian gas as they can get a hold of, Chinese invasion of Taiwan will not end well for China. Taiwan plays a vital role in semis, electronics, communication equipment. Nobody is particularly dependent on anything unique to China, on the contrary, China imports a lot of resources and food. Once this is cut off or made prohibitively expensive, China's economy will tank and the following social unrest will be unacceptable for the CCP.

rapind 5y ago

I wish you the best my friend. Hopefully you can work out the logistics, because wow… it sounds horrible.

ailun 5y ago

I'm in a similar situation, or I will be eventually. How hard is it for Chinese nationals to move to Taiwan, do you know?

mstaoru 5y ago
As far as I understand (unconfirmed directly), as soon as you have an ARC or a Gold Card (my plan), you can bring in your spouse (regardless of nationality) and children (I don't have any).

Volrath89 5y ago

Honest and naïve question, wouldn't you be afraid that the mainland Chinese government goes to war to take Taiwan back? Or is this exaggeration from the western media and actually we are very far from a full scale invasion?

mstaoru 5y ago
There is a possibility, but I believe, if anything, it's either very far away or even completely impossible. I'm not a strategist, and trying to stay as far as I can from politics, but unlike Russian invasion of Ukraine, where other countries utter strongly-worded sentences while buying as much Russian gas as they can get a hold of, Chinese invasion of Taiwan will not end well for China. Taiwan plays a vital role in semis, electronics, communication equipment. Nobody is particularly dependent on anything unique to China, on the contrary, China imports a lot of resources and food. Once this is cut off or made prohibitively expensive, China's economy will tank and the following social unrest will be unacceptable for the CCP.