Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t see how either place is worse than Trump’s America.

This is where I am. IMO, the Chinese know most Americans do not support Trump and would treat Americans who would be interested in being in china better than Trump would treat those same (liberal/DEI/communist) students.

It is not an issue of what they know or don’t know. It is about your kid being an easy target if someone needs an American to make an example of. A lot on this thread have an overly high opinion of the CCP.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If things get heavy, China will view dumb young Americans as bargaining chips. No way.

This. Probably kid will be fine but why take the risk for a fairly unimportant thing? Plenty of safer options.

Not if you kid has been studying Mandarin for the last 3-8 years.

Taiwan

No way. If anything happened to your kid, there is no legal system to turn to.

Probably not. My kid has severe ADHD. I would worry that a slight mistake in wording, a forgotten device, anything, could land him in hot water. He's going to Europe for his study abroad. His cousin went, though, and apart from a difficult moment when he lost his credit card, it went OK.

In a heartbeat!!!

Hong Kong is lovely. Would send you my kid in a heartbeat. Shanghai I haven’t been but I hear it’s very safe and vibrant.

I would say no. China has a habit of imposing exit bans on foreigners to use as bargaining chips, and there has been some worrying incidents of violence against foreigners this past year by locals. In a society controlled by the CCP, public sentiment against Americans can turn nasty very fast (and it is already not good).

For language, go to Taiwan. It will not be the same but close enough.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If things get heavy, China will view dumb young Americans as bargaining chips. No way.

This. Probably kid will be fine but why take the risk for a fairly unimportant thing? Plenty of safer options.

Not if you kid has been studying Mandarin for the last 3-8 years.

Anonymous wrote:I don’t see how either place is worse than Trump’s America.

This is where I am. IMO, the Chinese know most Americans do not support Trump and would treat Americans who would be interested in being in china better than Trump would treat those same (liberal/DEI/communist) students.

Anonymous wrote:If things get heavy, China will view dumb young Americans as bargaining chips. No way.

This. Probably kid will be fine but why take the risk for a fairly unimportant thing? Plenty of safer options.

If things get heavy, China will view dumb young Americans as bargaining chips. No way.

I don’t see how either place is worse than Trump’s America.

Absolutely not.

If language study is the goal, go to Taiwan.

Why or why not?