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Forums > Living in Kunming > GoKunming feedback...

What might be useful in some situations, is that if the OP would have option to delete messages.

To keep them from applying full censorship, they could be only allowed to delete posts that get sufficient down-votes.

That could help to self-moderate threads that could serve further public service purpose, but may otherwise get lost in meaningless spam.

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Forums > Living in Kunming > Naming your child

@Nicepal earlier gave exact description of the complication we have with our sons name. He too is "Chakou" instead of "Jack".

But the Pinyin version of the Chinese name (so far) has only appeared on our sons Chinese passport (because passport should be readable in other countries as well), in every "China-only" document it has been his Mandarin spelling.

For his foreign passport (if we get it), we (or himself) can go through the formalities of changing the name to "Jack", after getting initial passport with "Chakou".

Other countries may have different regulations governing the name that should appear on passport.

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Forums > Living in Kunming > Proposed IIT Reform

China has two modes of "permanent" residence.

One is the "green card" type which in theory gives you same rights as natives, for example being employed without work permit requirements.

The other is "tax residency", which means that China has right to tax your global income, but this does not necessarily give yourself any benefits same way Chinese "green card" does.

We were originally only talking about the IIT reform's implications to the "tax residency". For which there are still many unknowns.

But my personal opinion is, that if it becomes so much easier to become "tax resident" in China (or so much more difficult to escape it), then China should also much further loosen the requirement for its "green card".

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Forums > Living in Kunming > Proposed IIT Reform

There is no indication so far about it being tied to permanent residence.

But at least my common sense says, that if China wants to tax your global income, then the least it should do is to grant you all (however limited) opportunities that China provides to its own citizens.

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"support the website by making an account, asking questions in the forum, leaving reviews and using the classifieds section to find a job, sell your stuff or rent an apartment."

This (or rather what is not included in that list of to-dos) sums the criticism that I personally have toward the whole ordeal, and how GoKunming (out of no choice I understand) had to respond to it with rest of the nation.
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Ask questions and increase revenue, but feel free to avoid discussing and, heaven forbid, debating anything.

Not sure if this applies to Italy visas, but for many other European countries:

The Joint Visa Application Center that used to be in Beichen, is now relocated to an office building at intersection of .Shibo Road and Bojin Avenue.

New address:
1501D, Building A, Low Carbon Business Center, No. 12 Shibo Road, Kunming City, Yunnan Province 650000 China

www.vfsglobal.cn/finland/china/contact_us.html#14

I'm not a big fan of croissants anyway, and donuts I have not found in either of the establishments you mentioned.

@Dolphin: "savouring the croissant helps to cultivate appreciation. ie appreciating simple things rather than always feeling discontent that you don't have enough"

Perhaps, but it equally helps to cultivate ignorance of all the labor that has been put into creating that experience for you. At least I would allow you to feel discontent on behalf all the people who don't have enough, whether they had part in creating the croissant or not.

I't shouldn't anymore be about what you have or don't have, but what the other 7.7 billion (minus 1) people have or don't have. That's where the musings of Buddha (as quoted above) go wrong in this day and age.

There perhaps was a time, when embracing reality same way you would savour the croissant, could have been beneficial to achieving an enlightened state of mind.

But today, many would call such view on life quite the opposite of enlightened - it could be called ignorance or covering your eyes from all that is wrong. Perhaps that's suitable in Chinese context.

There, I connected the croissant to politics.

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