Public sentiment is largely critical of US immigration policies, with frustrations about the treatment of skilled Indian workers and a perception of a 'brain drain' towards China. Many commenters express a desire for India to develop its own talent pool rather than seeking opportunities abroad. Mixed feelings exist regarding China's K visa, with some commenters showing admiration for China's progress while emphasizing India’s need to improve its own immigration and development policies. A strong sense of patriotism emerges with calls to retain talent within India.

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Ngl I'm an Asian American with a non STEM degree that I regret getting and I'm not that happy with my life or work situation. I've been thinking about going back to school, and this might be an extra motivation

pumpkinmoonrabbit

This is maybe one of the bravest liberal moves ever made in history, it shows how ambitious China is in trying to tap the best of 8 billion ppl rather than 1.5 bio, an argument previously made in favour of the U.S. 

Feel for the 90% Han Chinese who already have minorities prioritised over them. If foreigners have the same privileges then there might be extreme local unhappiness like in Asian diaspora countries 

But unlike diaspora I think the rule is to adapt to Chinese work and culture, not the other way around now. So it could be interesting 

Have sent this to the French final year math undergrads I’m mentoring, and asked them to send to their friends. I think many see little opportunity in an ossified Europe, and the future might be to “Go East, Young Beast”

danorcs

bad fucking mistake. this is probably the worst government decision made by China in the past 5 years

davisresident

Depending how the specific rules end up this is almost surely gonna end up being 75% Indians. Just numerically if you look at all the STEM graduates in a world outside of China India is a huge amount.

myboyfriendpajeet

Wonder what will be the specific qualifications...

I graduated with a degree in Mech. Engineering, but I haven't used it as I've been a UX Designer for over 5 years now.

goldenragemachine

this could be a big deal for young Asian Americans especially Chinese Americans.

young AA STEM grads can go to China for various scientific endeavors. great opportunities awaits them.

as America continues its anti-science path the brain drain to Asia(specifically AAs) will be accelerating in the next decade.

i hope this also means more young STEM grads from other Asian nations joining the fray.

imo every prominent young AAs who is in STEM need to go China for scientific research. China is doing everything in all fields. biology,engineering,chemistry,astronomy,physics,fusion energy research,space program. you name it they have it.

creating long term connections/relationships by welcoming young people is a great thing.

linsanitytothemax

Question: is there an age limit for the visa?

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I said this a while back, but Canada should totally invest in programs such as these, and brain-drain the USA. Makes a lot more sense than China. Still English speaking, still culturally similar, access to the same Internet and the same entertainment programming, and if there's a family emergency you're a short hop away and not all the way across the planet's largest ocean.

Sabbathius

This is not enough. China needs to drastically change its citizenship laws to grant every ethnically Chinese person full citizenship rights while allowing them to keep whatever other citizenship they already have. I mean, they partially did it in Hong Kong and Macau, there is no reason why they couldn’t do it in the mainland, especially in the face of irreversible population collapse.

random20190826

I could see this playing out fairly well for china if they truly approach it seriously. It's not like they don't have world class schools. The interesting logistical points to me are things like how well they're going to accomodate international students; eg, whether or not they're going to be offering courses in english, housing and campus that doesn't require a high fluency in chinese etc.

I'm also assuming / hoping that with regards to international students their government will be a but more laissez-faire with them instead of using it as another vector for spying and subversion, which is probably unrealistic but feels mandatory if they really want to be enticing to western countries.

SyfaOmnis

Not only cracking down on immigrants but taking money and punishing those in pursuits of higher learning.

xBAMFNINJA

Why are there more chinese immigrating to America than Americans immigrating to china? Numbers dont lie

IndependentThink4698

At least Americans can soon work factory jobs like the Chinese. The new American Dream = the old Chinese factory jobs

212C9

It seems like this is going to be China century, they are the one who benefit the most from America fucking itself over with Trump and the republicans

Daryno90

China is doing a hell of a fantastic job rising above the US.

bluelifesacrifice

Sad that India exports so many of its brightest minds.

Wages are dismal in comparison to the US however.
Unsure if china would be a great place to move to. And authoritarian developing country.

If you have the skill set to make money you may as well try and get into the UK/EU to use those skills.
Won't make as much as the United States but far more than china.
Also less dictatorshipy

eiretaco

It’s great news for Americans . I urge all Indians with H1b to give up your H1b visa and go to China or wherever. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

justlookinghere122

ketoatl

Good, problem solved. Send all H1B to China , including all that are currently residing in U.S.

who_oo

China doesn't have the work culture and standard of living that would attract Indians, unless you are working an extremely cushy job.

The H1B income bracket for most OECD countries is magnitudes more than what is needed for a net positive immigrant. The jobs are also provided by multinational companies so it's not like people would ditch those for Chinese companies which are far riskier.

Which means, most future skilled talent will be pooled to small 3rd party countries with better standard of living, like the UAE, Singapore, etc. It really depends on which country is smart to actually cash in on the opportunity. I do not see much for countries that are not anglo-phone or are out of Indian influence.

The biggest winners would be gulf states.

andherBilla

I am already learning mandarin lol, from what ik of china especially major cities. No one gives a fuck if u r an immigrant or not (dont look at exceptions). plus its this authoritarian state or another....same thing globally....might as well go with flow...gotta pay off loans somehow lol

Less-Cat6399

It is hilarious that Americans think inbred cousin fuckers made their nation a super power.

The unparalleled ability to pick the best and brightest in the world did.

I.e. immigrants. The dipshits the American education system produces cannot be trusted to run a bar tap.

PlayfulCynic-2462

Hell yeah...  If this can make India abandon english for mandarin thats best

CapPsychological4270

We will see them later complaining about indians.

madboy3296

Thing is, china doesnt have enough jobs to even meet the demand of its own citizens let alone attract foreign talent.  What china need is to attract more investor visa’s.

itzdivz

Thank u China for taking them. I worry they will come to SG to steal more of our jobs. 🤣🤣🤣

Tanglin_Boy

Wasn’t the K visa already announced before the 100K h1b change? And from what I read it’s for highly specialized researchers and workers. not average joe web devs or IT support, there’s a huge surplus of Chinese who can already do that.

WaviestRelic

It was already announced in August, has nothing to do with H1B, Indians or even South Asia specifically ...

[https://www.china-briefing.com/news/chinas-entry-exit-k-visa-rules-2025/](https://www.china-briefing.com/news/chinas-entry-exit-k-visa-rules-2025/)

[https://kpmg.com/xx/en/our-insights/gms-flash-alert/flash-alert-2025-161.html](https://kpmg.com/xx/en/our-insights/gms-flash-alert/flash-alert-2025-161.html)

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Blackhawk23

Exactly ! Look up china 996 work culture . No way any Indian is going to China.

So you think selling out jobs to foreigners is a successful strategy?  It’s not just tech around here it’s more teachers than anything…avoid unions fixed income 35% less

BC2H

why don't you make something nice in your own country for a change, with all that talent

LSeww

America spends decades of careful diplomacy to create a counter balance for Chinese supremacy and  trump in just below a year shoots themselves on the foot and pushes those counter balance countries back to china's arms, lol.

Constant-Recipe-9850

You guys aren’t looking at the broader picture here. Indians still have arranged marriages based on their societal hierarchy. Indians with US citizenship now have a leg up advantage in marriage power with wealthy Indians where they may not have had one before. The value of US citizenship has exponentially increased.

Chuckobofish123

Huh, almost like they had this all ready to go.

StupendousMalice

“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake”

Embarrassed-Dust718

Most H1B holders didn't know who James brown is nor know who Eminem is neither know who Kid Rock is 🤭

CotterPinC276

China does not want Back Office, Application Maintenance workers, Support workers etc. like what most of the H1B visa holders do. They want people in high end tech, Semiconductors, Robotics, AI/ML etc. to which most of these Indian IT companies are worst. Try working for a client like Tencent, Alibaba etc. and then you will know what I am talking about. They will check each and every move you make and have a ruthless attitude. Indian tech is not built for such people.

vikeng_gdg

WebLogical1286

Man this orange clown is hell bent on destroying americas status as the superpower, why does he hate the west so much?  
And his stupid sheep followers, cooked.

Necessary_Assist_841

Are you Ready for 996 and even more  卷！😋

GuaSukaStarfruit

Indian techies are just bench warmers, we dont need bench warmers. We need best of the best lol

Tasty_Jump_1351

Loll, China youth can’t even find a job, and there you go more India workers Looolllll, it’s gonna flop

Traditional-Eye-7094

rddesai91

China needs tech workers. I thought they already have the brain power.

Mother_Internet_9384

Theres more indians in India than there are white people on the entire planet, by a large margin.

Like it or not there's literally so many of them, whoever chooses to take even a small amount of them would have their cultures overridden. Except.. China. Who has an equally ridiculously large population

PlatypusAshamed1237

Sure, some extremely talented individuals, but those talents already won’t have problem to have their companies paying 100k for their h1b petition anyway.

The rest of the workers are won’t get attracted by China visa, they would move to EU, UK or Canada cause salary and job markets in China likely not attractive enough for them.

nova1475369

From another PoV - anyone moving to china buy Yuan currency, this way bring more $ and make Yuan more accessible.. This century is China...Full Circle the global powers came ⭕..

 China/India - Egypt/Africa-- Middle East/Persia-  Europe - Americas

HST2345

Benifit - No racism on social media ..bcoz china regulated it's,,  no attack untill you make crime ,, no xenophobia,, people now chose china .over usa...

CulturalGear4030

Man fuck. Wish Canada did this immediately. Kudos vs to china.

Sad-Advisor4004

Trump is a literal traitor to the US.

He's deliberately giving aid and comfort to countries that he as President considers our enemies.

We are watching the US give away its power and influence, all because our institutions are too slow to react.

houstonyoureaproblem

They don't need to lure them with visa. They can trap them with free Chinese wives.

res0jyyt1

The visa won’t work capital restrictions for Chinese yuan lol

No_Cantaloupe5851

Chaina filling voids Trump creating, either that be USAID budget cut or H1B

OneNaive56

No one will go to work for Chinese companies due to their 996 culture.

RookiePatty

Great! Enjoy your freshly baked 9-9-6! And this is for real, I talked to the real Chinese tech workers who now work with me for a US company. For them, not working as much, and also Saturdays, working for US company is a major work-life balance improvement! Besides when I asked about working 6-9 pm in those days, they said they just have to stay because their boss can say they work extra hard, no one actually works those hours they just waste time

TheOnlyPlaton

China is quite racist and this will make it difficult.

xiphoidthorax

I checked ChatGPT. K visa was announced in August 7, 2025  Target to all global talents.

Relative-Wealth-3335

Amazing how one guy, in less than a year, could screw up the future of the country for decades to come.

doorcharge

China has enough of it's own talented people. The only reason I see here is to lower the salaries. I am software developer working for international company and the quality of Indian top engineers is low compared to the best Europeans who worked for google, openAI. One is German working like a machine and another one started with AI at the very beginning.

No-Paramedic-7939

There isn't enough work for Chinese students, but they want to import Indian students just to tell the US, "Hey, look, we're better than you!"  
smart move /s

Neither-Tension2181

The wig getting snatched off America was not something I thought would happen so soon.

cataclyzzmic

Totally unrelated but this is eagle doesn’t have 3 legs

Acceptable_Set1147

Lol. It is almost like the current US administration wants China to win in every aspect.

But hey, at least no one needs to see Harris' laughter anymore.

Hot-Scarcity-567

Ah yes, China, the country known for inclusivity, and definitely not racism. Also historically good ties with India.

Mako2401

I just don't see how this would work out for China considering their vast domestic supply of stem talent(unlike America) amid high unemployment. They would have to be very selective to avoid furthering unemployment, but being very selective defeated the purpose.

Head-Toe-

Why would Indians go from one dump to another?

rashnull

not really. you're not gonna see many indians wanting to go live in China. but if they do, it's good. their culture gel more than indians with western europe or US. they're more conservative

Embarrassed-Wolf-609

Ladies and gentlemen,  both governments suck but China is worse. They're just good with propaganda:Į

Baked_Ducklett

There are tons of college grads in China who can’t get a job, because there’s not enough jobs. Everyone and their mom has a degree in China, half of them are delivering food on an electric scooter for $1 USD an hour.

The other half who got a job were forced to retire after 35. China has a phenomenon of “retiring at 35” because companies won’t hire anyone over 35, since they can’t work crazy hours.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/28/business/china-jobs-age-discrimination-35.html

OnlyShopAtGAP

Nofanta

lost-associat

What's the point, Indians will go there, take big positions and exploit other fellow Indians and the cycle will keep continuing,

Unlikely_River5819

The Chinese K Visa is not targeted specifically at Indian tech workers, it is designed for young scientific and technological talents who have graduated from or are engaged in work at renowned global universities or research institutions. In fact, the eligibility criteria are relatively high. Additionally, its announcement date was not September 21st, but rather August 7th.

hongw9i

Smooth_Expression501

There will come a time in this country when those who enabled the dismantling of the great American experiment will deny they voted for fascism.

Beautiful_Debate_114

ahh yes... lets double up on badly developed code with a bunch of ip thieves and vibe coding tutorial clowns

NaFo_Operator

Why does China need Indian tech workers. They have their own population?

Centeredrightbhakt05

It's almost as if the ones being in charge in the US do everything in their power to demolish their own country.

  
Next: Trump crying over China stealing their workers.

Blattgeist

China doesn’t waste any time capitalizing on trumps missteps.

Single_Job_6358

Only reason China has done this is to piss off trump

Mediocre_Tank_5013

Liberals seem to have a fucking hard on for importing brown people and paying them less than white Americans. Starting to give awfully racist vibes.

NervouBro

Doubt this would work, East Asian work-cultures are brutal.

Will end up being an operations nightmare.

violin-kickflip

I hope it does. China might be self centered, authoritarian and thousand other things. But they are smart, believe in hard work and are not dependent on wars for economy. 

A china-india partnership is what India desperately needs. However the lack of trust is a huge huge problem

coldstone87

DetroitsGoingToWin

This is why I am buying Chinese tech stocks over American.  While we fret about who is using what bathroom, China is busy building more affordable tech products and infrastructure .  Science advances cultures and we are doing our best to kill it

outsmartedagain

Do many Chinese tech companies have operations in English?  Might be a bit tough to get someone from India fluent in Mandarin in short order, whereas in the US English proficiency is all you need.

Look I'm sure people in India can figure it out, but it is a barrier to many.

Affectionate-Panic-1

noo, who will unskilled american workers blame if china does this? did they think about the mental health implications for the guy that graduated college and can't write a single line of code without the help of AI?

ISpreadFakeNews

I see the unemployment in China is so high, admitted number is over 18% among young people. so how could they accommodate foreign workers? I guess they want to get those IT workers away from US not to use them but to ruin them.

AdorableFriendship65

countredrider

China has 4 years to overthrow america as world superpower. 
Very scary situation for india

Impressive-Swan-5570

We all got it wrong. Trump isn't a Russian asset, he's a Chinese asset. Most impactful in making China great again 🤣

NuoMask

Purely posturing. They already know none will apply.

Livewire3030

Wait till they learn that they cannot buy property there and behave however they please. America has been incredibly generous.

Objective-Clerk9162

I can already see the racism 


if America is "bad" I can only imagine what China will be like for them

lazoras

Don't know why people keep forgetting there are other visas too and off shoring. For the talented individual the company will pay the fee or get other visas. 

The issue is for others the company can choose to go offshore or try to find American workers or they stop sponsor jobs. 

Even without all these the sponsorship is at an all time low unless you are from the top 5 tech companies. Other things are as long as they allow consistency to exploit a visa this is going to be getting harder and harder

RecentAd6946

Be interesting for Indians to be able to still work in Asia instead of pursuing opportunities in the US. They can more easily visit family and sync up due the time zones differences.  Although quality of life working in a Chinese company might vary.

wtyl

tallant85

Uhm - they said “South Asians”. What makes you think they’ll allow indians to apply?

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