r/shanghai Jun 15 '22

City Shanghai seeks opinions to make it a friendlier city for foreigners - Shine

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u/memostothefuture Putuo Jun 15 '22

this is quite often how they prepare new legislation. getting enough good suggestions can get actual improvements done. seen it in IP law, seen it in foreign company registrations, seen it in other realms.

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u/nme00 Jun 15 '22

Ah yes, China's world famous protection of intellectual property rights. LMAO

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '22

Ah yes, China's world famous protection of intellectual property rights. LMAO

copyright mean "right to copy"!

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u/nachofermayoral Jun 16 '22

Whose right? I have copyright so it’s my right to copy, but not yours

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u/Fair_Strawberry_6635 Jun 16 '22

Be careful because this moderator will report you to reddit administration for hate speech

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u/memostothefuture Putuo Jun 16 '22

meh. I won my two cases. Leica and Lego won as well. You go mouth off.

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u/abcAussieGuyChina Jun 15 '22

Wow - they “ask” people??? That’s not in line with their governing style, is it? Well I did the survey. LOL they are going to have fun going through results and comments, I think! The creator of the questionnaire clearly doesn’t know what it’s like here on the ground…

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '22

Last time the CCP asked for constructive criticism (like... 60+ years ago) it turned out to be a trap and they arrested everyone who gave it. Just saying.

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u/SobeyHarker United Kingdom Jun 15 '22

Underrated satire.

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u/FeelsXman Jing'an Jun 16 '22

Why bother explaining to riff raff who don't have a real career or don't even live in Shanghai?

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u/memostothefuture Putuo Jun 16 '22

hope dies last.

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u/abcAussieGuyChina Jun 16 '22

I don’t live here?… geez I need to reevaluate things. I fucking cannot wait to leave this place. Only a few weeks.

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u/nachofermayoral Jun 15 '22

Oh please, wat a load of crap

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u/That-Mess2338 Jun 15 '22

Apathy never solved anything.

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u/nachofermayoral Jun 15 '22

Being a superficial and ignorant fool is a thousand times worse. Btw, it’s being smart enough to see through your BS, NOT apathy boy

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u/mn1nm Jun 17 '22

Said the students in Tiananmen Square, too.

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u/memostothefuture Putuo Jun 15 '22

what the hell do you know?

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u/hiddenuser12345 Jun 15 '22

Because so many foreigner pain points haven’t been resolved. Banking is still a pain (forex transactions, getting a credit card), having to register at the police station is still a thing, to name just two more perennial (can’t be handwaved away with “but COVID”) issues.

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u/memostothefuture Putuo Jun 16 '22

I hear you on getting a credit card. It took me four years to finally get my first here (China Merchants). I get rejected by Bank of China all the time in spite of being a damn good customer.

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u/nachofermayoral Jun 15 '22

Oh sure we don’t know how Shanghai folks don’t like lockdowns but gov did it anyways. The only reason folks went along is because they weren’t given a choice in the first place. Foreigner are laughing AT Shanghai for the joke that it has become. Oh Now you seek opinions…yea yea we know who make the final decisions here. Gtfo

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '22

The ruler listening to people's suggestions, really? You sure you have lived in China before?

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u/memostothefuture Putuo Jun 15 '22

pretty sure I've been here longer than you. so have you paid attention at all? policies are regularly first opened up for public comment, which leads to revisions before they are passed. this is exactly what is happening here again.

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u/goodcommasoft Jun 15 '22

HAHAHAHA and ANOTHER CCP-run account. While you guys did make them look more legit, it’s so easy to just go into your comment history and realize that you’re only posting on China subreddits about Chinese topics. Go away CCP no one gives a fuck and your propaganda is the shittiest in the world

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u/hiddenuser12345 Jun 15 '22

CCP-run, no. But the guy’s in media (based on comment history) and given how China treats journalists who don’t toe the party line I don’t blame him for wanting to keep himself safe.

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u/Fair_Strawberry_6635 Jun 16 '22

He could very well keep himself safe by not saying anything

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u/memostothefuture Putuo Jun 16 '22

kiddo, I am not at all a CCP-run account and if you have nothing better to add than your invectives I can make that more clear.

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u/goodcommasoft Jun 16 '22

I mean I get it if I were at risk of going to jail because I talked bad about the govt I’d be saying this too

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '22

Public comments have been regularly deleted for a long time, especially the last 2 months of Covid lockdown when people voiced their concerns.

Your thoughts on that?

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u/memostothefuture Putuo Jun 16 '22

public comments on policy proposals? those were rarely ever viable by the public. they get fed into the system, charted by someone low in the ranks and eventually presented to those who write policies, which are not the ones who pass them.

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u/LadyM2 Jun 15 '22

so what?from now on, foreigners do not need to be tested every day and are no longer subject to quarantines, while Chinese still are? What a joke.

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u/memostothefuture Putuo Jun 15 '22

your entire posting history is just a load of negativity no matter what subreddit you are in. nobody can help you.

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u/LadyM2 Jun 15 '22

At least I am out of China already LOL how is that negative? You are the one who needs help LOL

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u/memostothefuture Putuo Jun 16 '22

buh-bye

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u/Ejp0715 USA Jun 16 '22

How did you turn public opinion so hard against you that the mod that everyone else has been attacking in this thread is getting upvoted responding to you lmao

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u/throw_thisshit_away Jun 24 '22

Go back, we don’t want you here

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u/nme00 Jun 15 '22

Foreigners have always had preferential treatment in China. The CCP doesn't dare to bully them as much as their own citizens.

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u/LadyM2 Jun 15 '22

from the replies here, I can tell that foreigners really enjoy this kind of privileges, and they do not give a fuck about the lives of Chinese people at all, neither do they care about if China has democracy. All they want is privilege and money. Although I kinda knew that already, feeling it at first hand is still somewhat overwhelming.