Question: Is this offer (and most offers around China, ripping us all off to the absolute maximum or what? Love to read your comments.

Simple Answer: Of course.

We are treated as commodities, and if the chinese feel like being "nice" to us they will pretend to hold us up on some fake high pedestal. In these cases you'll feel slightly less like an ordinary commodity and more like a tool that was given some more shining. Either way if you want to feel like you're being treated fairly you should not go and work in that country.

I swear, even when my boss has a problem with me in the west and if there is a disagreement I still feel that I have so much more freedom, I can after all just quit. In places like china you have those retarded policies such as release letters and blacklists which basically limit your every move.