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i don't think they care about western communists, nor should they considering the amount of chauvinist communists parties out there.
But is a communist from the west moving to China considered to be someone with a negative or harmful political view? Or is it more in line with the general political view in the country, making a transition easier?
What do you mean about chauvinist communist parties? As in critical of China?
I think that if you are a foreigner living in China they probably don't want you involving yourself in their politics. Regardless what your politics are. It's none of your business, it's theirs. This also is part of the "non-interventionist" mentality.
Even if you gain citizenship, pay taxes, contribute and live there for many years? Then it's not just their business, then it's also my business?
Obviously if you have citizenship that's different. Citizens have full rights. But afaik it can be very difficult to become a Chinese citizen other than through marriage, birth or descent. I'm not an expert on this subject though. You can check this out if you're interested in the topic: https://lawyerschina.net/chinese-citizenship/
But if you are not a citizen i'm afraid you won't really have political participation rights (voting, becoming a party member, holding government office, etc.), even if you have permanent residency, which btw is itself already not easy to get: https://ikkyinchina.com/2025/04/08/china-immigration-policies-permanent-residence/
Edit: Hong Kong is a notable exception, as the right to vote there is only contingent on permanent residency status.
China is not unique in this, there are countries that grant non-citizen suffrage to various degrees but also countries that don't: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-citizen_suffrage
It's quite unfortunate because imo your political participation rights should not be based on citizenship but on residency. Emigrants being allowed to vote in their country of origins' elections even when they don't and haven't lived there for years is a very bad thing if you ask me, it causes a lot of problems. Elections in Moldova and Romania for example are severely fucked because of diaspora voting.