Dear Mr. Blysma,

Further to your recent post, I would encourage no serious reader of this site which reader is currently in the People's Republic of China under the terms of a Z visa, an L visa, an F visa, a Q visa to engage in such activities as you suggest in this or any of your other publications.

All those who seek entry to China are bound by the terms of the issuance of the respective visa to duly follow Chinese rules and regulations.

Your unnamed and undefined legal team, term of experts without evident qualifications, and assuredly not licensed to practice law in the People's Republic, under the guise of their spurious and blatantly illegal assertions, could cause risk to the legal well being of any non PRC foreign resident.

I do not defend VIP Kids nor do I have any attention of so doing.

I do, however, remonstrate against anonymous and unconfirmed legal experts, who bereft of any true, practical and essential understanding and grounding in and of the functioning of the legal system of China, gratuitously engage in such dilatory comments, assuch comments as are likely to cause prejudicial harm to innocent but aggrieved and naive non Chinese nationals.

I again refer to Article 24 (a typographical error in the previous email) of the Constitution and the Fundamental Laws of China.

Foreign nationals and non-resident Chinese nationals that engage in the practice of the creation and fostering of unions are charged with crimes under appropriate section of the Chinese Criminal Code concerning hooliganism and anti-state activities (流氓行为和反国家行为). Such foreign nationals may be either subject to deportation, imprisonment, or both and are generally heavily fined before deportation.

Under the current Internet laws of China, any individual that causes harm to the well-being of a business located in mainland China, through slanderous or otherwise misleading remarks, can indeed, and in the past several months, such individuals have been, charged with tortious interference in the conduct of business. Convictions have been swift and have resulted in several years imprisonment with usually heavy fines.

One is best advised, when in China, to keep one's very negative opinions to oneself, at least until having left the country. If a job is not satisfactory, and is under contract, then I would encourage that a face-saving way be found to exit the contract. After all, most non-Chinese nationals, and particularly unskilled and uncharted legal experts, understand nothing concerning the tantamount value of face in the Chinese system.

Hong Kong law and administrative procedures to all intents and purpose remain common law; mainland law and administrative procedures are not. In the mainland, most arrests of foreign nationals are carried out and disposed of by the Exit and Entry Control Police of the Public Security Bureau (公安局出入境管理部门), which bureau maintains its own courts and operates very autonomously. There is absolutely no effective consular protection at this level.

I understand with all respect, Mr. Blysma, that you are currently in or near Chicago. That is a very, very long way from the realities of the current political and legal situation in China.

Thus, to all VIPKid employees, my advice would be simple ...if you do not like the job, devise an exit strategy. Move on and move forward.

New Year's Greetings to all.

Andrew McQuade