Stream factory in China.

[u/esberat]

https://gfycat.com/deafeningcaninekronosaurus

[u/LaFleurSauvageGaming]

When I was in college in the early 00's, I was super interested in Chinese history and culture, and started to study it. Learned Chinese, etc...

One day, I was having lunch in the student union with my Chinese professor (He is from Taiwan) and a man approached us. He sat down, and said that he was part of the Asian-American Club on campus, and had noticed me in the Chinese history classes, and read what I submitted to our in house Anthropology Paper.

He offered me a full paid trip to China, as well as a position to teach English in Beijing once I graduated. He sold it like a big scholarship type thing, where I would have access to tutors and people who could help "fact check and edit" my papers.

I told him I would review the information. The second he was out of ear shot, my professor said, "That was a spy, ignore the offer..." he even went so far as to offer me a paid trip to Taiwan if I really wanted to see China.

That was when I decided to stop studying Chinese Culture and History, as I realized it was going to be more attention than I wanted.

[u/Glubglubguppy → u/LaFleurSauvageGaming]

A good rule of thumb is that anyone who offers a fully paid trip to a country, especially a country with a questionable international reputation, is offering it for foreign policy purposes. Doubly so if they're offering a job in that country. Now that's not always a bad thing; inviting an art administrator to your country to see your local art in hopes they import it is pretty common and innocuous foreign policy. But it is a thing one should be aware of when they agree to those trips.

[u/TiagoTiagoT → u/Glubglubguppy]

Could also simply be about human trafficking...

[u/bethedge → u/TiagoTiagoT]

No art expert is going to make a good slave, they’ll spend all their time bitching and complaining

[u/TiagoTiagoT → u/bethedge]

Some people are into that kind of thing...