Originally Posted by
YariGuy
China looks at whatever passport you hand them / enter the country with. Unless you think they are willing to start an international incident by "claiming" a German citizen as one of their own, you and your wife will face no issues at all on this itinerary.
I am a dual citizen (including TW). You are way overthinking this.
Yes, I admit I am definitely overthinking it
I just dont wanna see my wife getting detained and questioned while my baby daughter and I have to figure out whats gonna happen.
I suppose it could go the way you described, but...
"Unless you think they are willing to start an international incident by "claiming" a German citizen as one of their own"
I mean thats what they are doing already isn't it?! They are already claiming that she is Chinese although she is Taiwanese. That is the whole problem wouldn't you agree as a Taiwanese???
They do have all her data so they would definitely know if they crosscheck. Thats why I am asking here in hope that some people might actually know how those checkpoints work. If a passport
could get flagged because of stuff like this. I myself think it is unlikely but I'd rather be on the safe side.
The official policy of the PRC is to treat all ROC citizens with a foreign passport as foreign nationals. So your wife is absolutely fine to use her German passport while in the PRC.
That would be awesome, is there a website where I can see that official policy?
BTW, not recognising dual citizenship does not mean that holding two passports breaks the law. It simply means that China will choose to only recognise one citizenship in such cases.
I didn't really mean that she is breaking the law, my point is, that I am unsure what would happen to her in case she got flagged and maybe would be taken away to get questioned. We would travel with our
baby girl and I don't speak Mandarin so that would be a "scary" situation for my daughter and I. It's not something I wanna put her through seeing her mom get taken away if you know what I mean =)
By the way I have nothing against China, I would love to travel the country because it has so many beautiful places, I just wanna make sure that everything works out flawlessly and my wife feels safe.