The main path to Chinese citizenship seems to be sporting prowess. They had a moment in 2019 where about a dozen footballers were naturalized. But for most people, the path of a premiership footballer is not going to be how they'll get into any country. So it may be that in the future China has to change at least some of its short-term guess-worker schemes.
Our Russia and defence editors travelled to the capital, finding a city largely back to normal. They ask both civilians and the country’s top brass about Ukraine's position—and its future. China’s population-control measures worked perhaps too well, yet even an incipient labour-market crisis is not changing resistance to immigration. And the issues with America’s springtime rattlesnake round-ups.
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