For the first time China is actually enforcing basic requirements IN EVERY PROVINCE. The result is that institutions nation-wide are having an impossible time acquiring an adequate number of qualified teachers for the coming Fall semester.

Every province, but not in any autonomous regions nor special admimistrative regions, such as Chongqing and Shanghai? Flawed, and in any case we only have your word for this! No reason to trust what you say!

Legitimate public universities and high schools will make do with less FTs and shift the work load to Chinese teachers of English

Does China have any illegitimate public universities and high schools? Please name them. What about public colleges? You haven't mentioned them!

But private language schools need white faces for parents. Their only solution is to pay recruiters to provide employees that will work illegally. Recruiters will assure you that you are legally employed, but when you arrive in China the police will fail to approve your FEC and residence permit because you do not have an apostilled 4 year degree from one of the approved English speaking countries, EFL certification from an approved school or two years work experience and a valid Z visa in hand.

Blah, blah, blah! Such private schools can also recruit direct, and can find foreigners who have all the right boxes ticked! Not that I would want to teach for any such school, but that's just me!

DO NOT accept the advice of recruiters and DO NOT trust advice from posters on this forum that misrepresent themselves as foreign teachers in China.

For all we know you could be a poster on this forum who misrepresents himself/herself as a foreign teacher in China!