Yes indeed, let us hold hands and heartily sing Kumbaya while they run among us killing, beheading, crucifying, raping, stabbing, setting off bombs and burying kids alive.

As China began to develop and the economy grew the government adopted adopted the mantra of development is primary and environmental degradation was inevitable and merely reflected progress. Tree hugging activists and protester were regularly detained.

As polluting is an economic decision, the government closed it's eyes and permitted dirty growth in the pursuit of GDP. Some day the pollutted chickens will come home to roost. Hopefully they will not glow in the dark.

It is on uT in Chinese no ST

@Xiefei: You are absolutely correct: China tax law is, relative to US tax law, extremely simple. I would say the intrinsic simplicity of terms begets problems with interpretation. and application. This results in very uneven enforcement.

The US, and most countries, establish a central tax authority and regional tax offices are required to follow decisions on enforcement and application by the central bureaucracy. In China, local tax bureaus make the decisions.

I would prepare worksheets for various situations printed on paper and visit three tax bureaus on Beijing. With identical facts and questions I could get answers, corrections and insight. For laowai, there was inconsistent results in calculating tax due. To be fair 2 of 3 bureaus were consistent while the third was not laowai friendly. (The US IRS has similar problems)

Eventually, I found that asking precise questions, or the right question, was the biggest variable. If I was not clear or did not have a good idea of the answer, the answers varied a lot more.

Yeah, I know it is an IME. My problem is that it produced the traditional 孫instead of the simplified 孙 and I took 孫 as a different character. I should have gone to my Pleco and checked it.