Most people who do manage to get a work visa are coming for highly skilled jobs. China has done such a good job of very rapidly increasing its higher education, that it now has actually too many graduates for the graduate jobs around. But at the same time, there are areas where there are great shortages. And we're going to see many, many more shortages in the future.
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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