The half naked laowais splattered on the floor like turds are the reason why China is tightening the noose and raising the standards for teachers - limit the number of less-skilled laowai = eliminate the riff raff.

Anyone with eyes can see that the police are not helping the laowais but restraining them. I am sure someone here will come up with the idea that they were attacked by nationalistic and xenophobic chinese.

Now this thread has turned from nationalism, socialism, xenophobia, and discrimination into income tax. laws.

shanghaiist.com/2016/09/12/work_permit_ranking.php - Back on topic = work permit!

Foreigners will be given points based on:

1 - Salary in China.
2 - Educational background.
3 - Length of work in China.
4 - Chinese language proficiency (HSK).
5 - Age (25-40)
6 - Where they work (city, county, village)

Very reasonable requirements.

HFCampo, I disagree that this is the reason.

Not entirely sure what you refer to in your description, but if I dare to guess, such behaviour would and does occur just as easily with simple tourists and backpackers, and tightening work permit requirements would have limited impact on it.

If there is need to raise standards for teachers, then from Beijing's standpoint I image it to be that there simply is decreasing need for non-qualified English teachers, and even for the qualified there is need to raise the bar.

Kids in 1st tier cities are getting better and better in English, and there is increasing volume of foreign educated Chinese nationals returning home instead of making a life abroad. Those can fill many teaching positions, even if unqualified as teachers.

That said, the regulatory changes described are in no way limited to teachers. Even in Kunming there are foreigners working in other fields too and the new rules will apply to them as well.

In the picture the police arrested a whole bunch of foreigners as they were parading through the city dressed as spartans or warriors half naked, marching through as if they owned the place. They were students being paid for an advertising stunt for a local company.
The police didn't know this. For all they knew they could have been demonstrating in which case the police had no prior notification as is required. Hence the arrests and the discovery none of them had the relevant working visas. Some tried to run, all the more reason for forced restraint.

Yea, vicar, its just amazing what morons there are around, aint it. While I was yesterday amazed how many laowais are dumb as a stone, and a general "level" line drawn very low, lets say this too, a good bunch are so full of themselves they got no connection to whats going on around them. One can very well understand Chinese how much they despise and feel contempt for a good deal of these people.

100 foreigners were arrested for this stunt in Beijing.. not just a couple of guys

Well, is anyone surprised.

Goes to show that effectively enforcing the already existing work permit requirements to prevent students and travellers from working illegally would go much further to raise the level, than raising work permit requirements ever will.

This is all part of a bigger plan that is just in its beginning stages.

www.gokunming.com/en/forums/thread/13045/whats_next

www.thebeijinger.com/[...]

The Chinese report repeatedly mentions the catchphrase "Encourage the High End, Limit the Ordinary, Restrict the Low End" (鼓励高端、控制一般、限制低端) in reference to the new policy.

@Hfcampo
The problem is (as always) what China is doing is not working.

High End needs Low End to train and progress.

Local low end doesn't care or gets paid enough. More outside Liw End is needed.

China is never willing to pay and treat talent fair.

Etc.etc.
Reactionary idiotic policies galore. Have seen plenty of those in the last decades. Funny, sad and stuuuuuuuuupid.