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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why or why not? Anyone with any direct experience?

This is a repost from the political board. I should have posted in here initially.

My dc is American but is half Asian (looks more Asian than white if that makes a difference) speaks some mandarin and his university has several programs in China, including at a top school in Shanghai that dc is very interested in attending. But not sure it’s safe. Taiwan might be a better option but he’s not as interested in the partner program there. Dc is not into politics, and has never voted although he did register Dem last year.

I was interested to see the Canadian travel advisory for the US. Made the US sound terribly unsafe!

https://travel.gc.ca/destinations/united-states

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I live in Hong Kong.

I will keep this brief and somewhat circumspect for obvious reasons.

This is no longer the Hong Kong so many Americans remember. Ask anyone you talk to when they last lived here.

Also travelling to Hong Kong to study Mandarin would be like travelling to Italy to learn French.  Hong Kongers speak Cantonese and use traditional characters, not simplified.

One final note, there are far far fewer Americans studying in the mainland now.

“ These days[April 2024], only about 700 American students are studying at Chinese universities, down from a peak of close to 25,000 a decade ago, while there are nearly 300,000 Chinese students at U.S. schools.”

https://apnews.com/article/china-american-students-universities-f5f6e53cd5d3bc686590f2f961165281

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Are you PenguinSix or something like that?  I remember a DCUM poster who was an expat in HK posting years ago.  (Not that I think there's only one American in HK, but DCUM is a bit esoteric for someone living there)[/quote]

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