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In 2016, China issued 1,576 permanent residency cards. This was more than double what it had issued the previous year, but still roughly 750 times lower than the United States’ 1.2 million at the time. [3] By 2017, the number of foreigners holding Chinese Permanent Residence finally passed the 10,000 mark. [4]
The Chinese government actively discourages this type of behavior out of fears that it may cause instability in the region and encourage more illegal immigration. [1]In 2003, campaigns against illegal immigration were conducted in Guangdong and other Chinese provinces, and around 2008, the police repeatedly conducted so-called "hurricane" campaigns against illegal immigration in Guangdong.
In May 2012, the Chinese government launched A 100-day crackdown on illegal foreigners in Beijing, due to Beijing residents wary of foreign nationals due to recent crimes. [ 32 ] [ 33 ] China Central Television (CCTV) host Yang Rui said, controversially, that "foreign trash" should be cleaned out of the capital. [ 32 ]
Anti-Western sentiment has been increasing in China since the early 1990s, particularly amongst Chinese young adults. [1] Notable incidents which have resulted in a significant anti-Western backlash have included the 1999 NATO bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, [2] the 2008 demonstrations during the Olympic torch relay [3] and alleged Western media bias, [4] especially in relation to ...
Anti-Chinese sentiment in Taiwan comes from the fact that many Taiwanese, especially young people, choose to identify solely as "Taiwanese" [56] and are against having closer ties with China, like those in the Sunflower Student Movement. [57]
Anti-American protests in Nanjing following the U.S. bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, 1999. There is a history of anti-Americanism in China, beginning with the general disdain for foreigners in the early 19th century that culminated in the Boxer Rebellion of 1900, which the United States Marine Corps participated with other powers in suppressing.
Russia's main Pacific port and naval base of Vladivostok, once closed to foreigners and belonged to China until the late 19th century, as of 2010 bristles with Chinese markets, restaurants and trade houses. A growing Chinese community in Germany consists of around 76,000 people as of 2010. [51]
However, he recognizes it as pejorative and stated that "it is the foreigners [in China] who can't speak any Chinese who are truly 'laowai'" (不 會 說 漢語 的 外國人 那 纔 叫 老外 呢; 不 会 说 汉语 的 外国人 那 才 叫 老外 呢). [11]