(I know this topic is old. Forgive me; I'm finally catching up on stuff.)
After reading all this, I was going to ask, then does that mean if a foreigner, say a pregnant woman from Finland, moves to China and has her child, and that child grows up in China, speaks, reads, and writes Chinese as their first language, has only ever lived in China... does that make them "Chinese?" But your comment here - "You must have Chinese parents who are citizens to claim citizenship." - answers that question.
It does make me wonder, though, in this hypothetical situation, what would happen to the child if the pregnant Finnish woman was unmarried when she arrived in China? A brief glance at Wikipedia tells me that the child would not be granted Finnish citizenship, but then they also wouldn't have Chinese citizenship... Is it possible for a person to have no citizenship?
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Date: 2024-12-30 14:49 (UTC)After reading all this, I was going to ask, then does that mean if a foreigner, say a pregnant woman from Finland, moves to China and has her child, and that child grows up in China, speaks, reads, and writes Chinese as their first language, has only ever lived in China... does that make them "Chinese?" But your comment here - "You must have Chinese parents who are citizens to claim citizenship." - answers that question.
It does make me wonder, though, in this hypothetical situation, what would happen to the child if the pregnant Finnish woman was unmarried when she arrived in China? A brief glance at Wikipedia tells me that the child would not be granted Finnish citizenship, but then they also wouldn't have Chinese citizenship... Is it possible for a person to have no citizenship?