Thoughts on moving to Mainland China or Taiwan as a Chinese Indonesian business owner
Apparently both Mainland China and Taiwan actually have relatively easy/attainable business visas and work visas for foreign business owners.
For Mainland China, it seems that a foreign citizen (including Chinese Indonesians) could open up any kind of business or company that is not restricted to Chinese citizens only, as long as they have enough capital to start one, have a profitable business/business idea, and follow local regulations.
Business owners can also get a work visa through their businesses/companies as long as they fulfil the requirements of getting an ordinary work visa (which I believe isn’t that hard for business owners who have their businesses/companies running for a few years). Getting permanent residency would likely be doable if your income/salary generated by your business is above a certain threshold.
For Taiwan, a foreign citizen could open up a business or company there and get a work permit/ARC as long as you meet the minimum starting capital of 500k NTD and reach an annual turnover/average annual turnover of 3 million NTD. If you manage to get past that, permanent residency seems relatively easy to obtain as long as you meet the other requirements for one.
Of course the biggest problem would be figuring out if your current business model would work in Mainland China / Taiwan and/or finding a business idea that would be profitable and sustainable there in the long run, especially considering the competitive environment there (especially in Mainland China).
And getting your Mandarin to business-level proficiency would take some time.
What are your thoughts on that?