If the 'Caring' poster wants to label me as 'Fox News' then so be it. I've had worse hypocorisms to deal with from people with far more sarcastic ability....

Anyway, I know many FT's who live paycheck-to-paycheck, and the July/August break with no salary usually causes them lots of pain and grief.
Enter the FT who has just been told that in order to renew his soon-to-expire RP, he must get his docs verified.
It seems that, like many others, he neither has the willingness nor the funds to do so, so he's packed up and left without a word.
He's scored another job in another province - one where these new rules are not fully enforced - and been told to leave China. He will be issued with a brand new invitation letter so there's (apparently) no need for a release letter from the place he's walked out of.
His teaching schedule has already been prepared by the school he's walked out of, and the first they'll know about it is when he fails to show up for class.

Under normal circumstances I would say that his actions are not only irresponsible, but deplorable. But right now circumstances appear to be far from 'normal'.

By that, I'm not saying I am condoning his actions, but I think there are lots of FT's out there who fully understand them.

This is Paul Fox.....reporting for 'Fox News'......[edited]