As a Chinese citizen living in the U.S., are there any Chinese laws you wish the U.S. had?

作为一个生活在美国的中国公民，有哪些中国法律是你期望美国也能拥有的？

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Feifei Wang, I am Chinese and/or American

Universal healthcare. Yes, China has universal health care. It’s pretty corrupted and has a lot of problems. It doesn’t always work, and a lot of underprivileged people have trouble access their health care. Hospitals are overworked and understaffed. Bribing is everywhere. You try to provide universal healthcare to 1.5 billion people, shit happens. But on principle, Chinese government believes people should not die because they can’t afford their medical bills.

No tipping. Please pay waitstaff proper wages instead of blackmailing your customers to cover your costs.

No drinking/smoking age. Children can buy liquor and/or cigarettes. You remove the taboo of drinking and smoking, children are actually less likely to do it. And they most definitely do not go on drinking rampage on their 21st birthday and do stupid things because they don’t know how to handle their liquor.

No private schools. All schools are public, paid by taxpayer money.

Mandatory 9 years of education paid by the state for ALL children (elementary school to middle school).

No legacy admissions. You can’t donate a lab to a university to get your kids in Harvard. You want to go to Peking University? You take the damned college entrance exam like millions of other kids.

No private prisons. All prisons are run by the state.

And last but not least: Universal gun ban. Nobody get guns. NOBODY.

Police station has guns locked in lockers, if a police officer wants to get a gun, they need to write an application, check out the gun, count the bullets. When he returns the gun, he needs to write a report, account for every bullet, and the gun goes back to the locker. Only armed police and military have guns.

No mass shooting, No school shooting, No fucking senseless death and fucking thoughts and prayers!

Thach Nguyen

I never understand the way Americans think about healthcare. Communist countries have universal healthcare. Capitalist countries have universal healthcare. “Shit hole” countries under crazy dictatorships have universal healthcare. Big countries have universal healthcare. Small countries have universal healthcare. Rich countries have it. So do poor countries. If there is one thing that works, well, universally, it''s universal healthcare. But not the US because we believe … what? Poor people should just drop dead?

我永远都想不明白美国人是如何思考医保的。其他国家拥有全民医保，资本主义国家拥有全民医保。在统治下的屎坑国家拥有全面医保。大国拥有全面医保，小国拥有全民医保。富国拥有全面医保，穷国也拥有全面医保。如果有一个东西是全世界都行得通的话，那就是全民医保。但是美国没有，为什么？因为穷人就应该去死？

Christienne Woods

Yes—that is it exactly—they believe that the poor are poor of their own doing and if they were “given” things like health care that the incentive to work hard would be taken away—stupid idea -but that is it

是的，他们就是这么想的，他们认为穷人是因为自己而变得贫穷的，如果被赋予医保这样的东西，那么他们就没有努力工作的动力了。这简直是愚蠢的想法，但是他们就是这么想的。

Gongtao Yang, Full Stack Engineer, currently working at Apple

No tipping. It’s illegal to tip and accept tipping in resteraunt according to Chinese law. Waiters are actually paid a living wage and they should. I don''t mind paying a bit more for food, I just don''t want to do MATH when I had a couple shots of whisky!

Drug laws. I am not just talking about laws about illegal drugs. Legal drugs that used in surgeries are controlled as well. I rember when my mom had to go under anesthesia for a surgery, my dad and I had to go through a lot of paper work. The drug for the anesthesia, I was told later, can be used to make illegal drugs. Even perscxtion painkiller is harder to get in China when I sprained my ankle when I visited my parents. Those laws has a lot oversight on the pharma companies which is what the US needs now.

Envirormental laws and enforcement. Enforcement of envirormental laws in US currently (Dec 2019) is a joke. Ministry of Environmental Protection of the People''s Republic of China has enormous amount of power. If a factory is up for the standard, that factory is closed, period. I pesonally perfer my children can have a habitable earth.

Edit 1: These are things I think US should have no trouble doing. These are feasible and can have direct improvement to people’s lifes. I see very little downside of these laws.

1、没有小费。根据中国法律，在餐馆里给小费和接受小费是非法的。服务员获得了一个基本生活工资，这是应该的。我不介意为食物支付多一点钱，我只是不想在几杯威士忌下肚后还要做算术题。

Gongtao Yang

Industrial pollution is getting better in China. There is a long way to go, but It''s getting there. My dad is an Industrial engineer, he designs factories and he told me stories of how new environmental law are enforced. My hometown’s air pollution is getting better by the year as well.

US doesn''t have China’s level of pollution, but It''s pretty bad in some areas. I think you heard the news about how new laws are not enforced by EPA. I want the enforcement effort not exactly the laws in this case.

I don''t know that particular dumping, but to my knowledge. If something like that is exposed, the company will change leadership if not down right closes.

中国的工业污染在好转。还有很长的路要走，但是中国已经在做了。我的爸爸是一个产业工程师，他设计工厂，他对我说中国新的环境法规是如何得到执行的。我家乡的空气污染也正在改善。美国没有中国那么高的污染，但是某些地区其实很糟糕。我猜你已经看到了美国环保署不执行新法规的新闻。所以我这里谈的不是环境法规，而是环境法规的执行。

我不了解这个太湖的垃圾倾倒是怎么回事，但是根据我的了解，如果这样的事情被爆出来，这家企业肯定会换领导人，甚至可能直接被关门。

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