Originally Posted by
HkCaGu
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What the Chinese government has gotten over the years is the US "reciprocity profit" (it costs the USG $140 to process a visa, but it doesn't costs the PRCG anywhere near this much). .
1 Embassy 5 consulates
6 x 20K USD per day = 120KUSD/day
x 260 work days = 31.2 M USD/year
cost~1 M USD
net profit 30.2M
Not Bad.^